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Obama and his alumni network offer Harris their political muscle
WASHINGTON ― Casting himself as “a skinny kid with a funny name” instantly made a barely 40-something Barack Obama a star. The future president won over the heart of swing voters on the Democratic convention stage in Boston two decades ago with a message …