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Mon Mar 9, 2020, 02:11 AM Mar 2020

Senator Harris on Jones: 'Please send him back, Alabama'

Senator Kamala Harris was in the middle of giving advice to a crowd of Miles College students and faculty when she connected eyes with a friend from college and burst into laughter.

“We started freshman year together at Howard [University,]” Harris said smiling. “This goes to say, make friends who will encourage and stand by you.”

The senator’s trip to the historically black college in Fairfield, Alabama, wasn’t entirely to see old friends, but rather on behalf of Alabama’s senator, Doug Jones. And she had nothing but positive remarks about Jones.

“[Jones] and I are always cuttin’ up and sending each other notes," Harris said. "We were cuttin’ up in the impeachment hearings. Some of those words would not be spoken in church.”

Read more: https://www.al.com/news/2020/03/senator-harris-on-jones-please-send-him-back-alabama.html

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