How Beau Biden Set the Stage For Kamala Harris’ Stunning Political Rise

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There were days the pair talked to each other more than they spoke to the people who slept under their roofs. 

Kamala Harris was the state attorney general of California and Beau Biden was in the same role over in Delaware, where so many of the banks she was fighting were based. At the height of the clean-up from the 2008 financial crisis, more than...