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Two days before the November election, a rogue team of campaign organizers for Vice President Kamala Harris turned a Dunkin’ Donuts in Philadelphia into their secret headquarters.

Their mission was simple: Knock on the doors of as many Black and Latino voters as they could in neighborhoods that they believed the Harris campaign had neglected in its get-out-the-vote-operation. And they could not let their bosses find out.

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Campaign organizers in Philadelphia said they were told not to engage in the bread-and-butter tasks of getting out the vote in Black and Latino neighborhoods, such as attending community events, registering new voters, building relationships with local leaders and calling voters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/us/politics/harris-philadelphia-black-latino-voters.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

I would tend to cut the Harris campaign some slack here only because of the late start of the campaign.

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I'm on the other side of the river, so my read on the situation could be off, but I don't think either the scion of the Patriots or the councilor for Southie would pose much of a threat to Wu.. This isn't Raymond Flynn's Boston, where an economic populist / cultural conservative was a good fit. Nor does his son have his reputation for going after monied interests. (The elder Flynn went after banks, utility companies and landlords, both as councilor and as mayor.) Both men read to me as the right of center disgruntledness that lost in a landslide in the 2021 race and don't have a constituency or a platform that reaches the broader city of Boston. (This is somewhat unfair to Essaibi George, who was more going for "pragmatic centrist", but that's who ended up voting for her.)

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