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California's big, but South Carolina may be key in Kamala Harris' presidential run

COLUMBIA, S.C._For Kamala Harris, the road to the White House began amid the sequins, satin gowns and crystal chandeliers of a ballroom in the capital city of South Carolina.

The California senator made her debut on the presidential campaign trail Friday night before 3,700 partygoers at the city's annual Pink Ice Gala.

It was no coincidence Harris chose this state to make her initial appearance. Nor was the locale an accident: the annual bash thrown by Alpha Kappa Alpha, the nation's first sorority founded by black Americans, which Harris pledged as a student at Howard University.

Few states are being as closely studied, sized up and sifted through by the senator's campaign as South Carolina, which has a crucial early place on the 2020 calendar.

South Carolina played a vital role propelling Barack Obama to the White

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