HOUSTON, Texas: Vice President Kamala Harris took her presidential campaign to the largest teachers union in the United States on Thursday, promising a “fight for the future” as new opinion polls showed she was closing the gap with Republican rival Donald Trump. Harris’s rapid rise to succeed President Joe Biden, 81, as the Democratic presidential nominee in the Nov. 5 election has shaken up a stagnant presidential race, with polls showing her cutting into former President Trump’s lead.
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