MORAGA, Calif. — Suzy Loftus has been Kamala Harris’s shut pal and colleague for twenty years. She labored on Ms. Harris’s first political marketin
MORAGA, Calif. — Suzy Loftus has been Kamala Harris’s shut pal and colleague for twenty years. She labored on Ms. Harris’s first political marketing campaign, a profitable run for district legal professional in San Francisco. She served as a senior adviser throughout Ms. Harris’s ascent to state and nationwide politics, they usually labored collectively on the state’s Justice Division.
But on Friday afternoon, as she watched outcomes trickle in that appeared to level to a victory for Ms. Harris and Joseph R. Biden Jr., Ms. Loftus was in no temper to have fun.
“Are you kidding?” Ms. Loftus mentioned from her dwelling in San Francisco. “There’s nonetheless hand-wringing.”
The ups and downs of election night time, the indignant outbursts and untimely declarations of victory by President Trump — Ms. Loftus mentioned her abdomen was nonetheless churning. A Biden-Harris victory, she mentioned, would really feel like passing the bar examination: “There was some jubilation however principally it was simply profound reduction.”
And Ms. Loftus, raised by an English-Irish immigrant mom who taught her that public service was honorable and authorities a power for good, mentioned she was frightened about what her three kids and their era would take away from this election.
“It’s past my understanding as a mom about what impact this has on younger folks and what they imagine about our establishments,” she mentioned. “The feelings are all over.”