“Don't ever let anybody take your power from you,” former vice president Kamala Harris told several hundred Democrats at Nashville’s Hadley Park on Nov. 18. “That’s why I am here in Tennessee, because I know the power is in the South.”
Harris was introduced by state Rep. Justin Jones (D-Nashville), who referred to her as "my auntie, Madam Vice President," to smiles from Harris and cheers from the crowd.
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