For weeks, the signs did not look good for Kamala Harris in Michigan. The leader of a well-to-do neighborhood association told me that the way Ms. Harris got nominated resembled “entrapment.” And, at a street fair, I chatted with Tamika Daniels, an activist who was working to register formerly incarcerated people to vote. Ms. Daniels expressed skepticism about Ms. Harris because the vice president had once been a prosecutor. There was no sign of such skepticism at the Harris rally near the Detroit airport last Wednesday, where roughly 15,000 excited people waited hours to see her. If the Harris campaign is unable to address this thorny issue in a way that feels like substance, then Democrats may not get the unity they’ll need to win in November.

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Persons: Kamala Harris, “ Willie Brown, Kamala, ”, Harris, Tamika Daniels, Daniels, they’d, Barack Obama’s, “, Obama, ” Sheila Sigro Organizations: California Assembly, Democrats, United, Democratic Party Locations: Michigan, Grayling, California, Detroit, Wayne County, Gaza, U.S