In the front row was the driving force behind it: Jotaka Eaddy. She had been sitting on her parents’ porch in South Carolina when she got a text saying that Joe Biden had dropped out and endorsed me. Not three hours later, she’d rallied forty-four thousand Black women to support me on a call that “broke” Zoom, which couldn’t handle any more participants. The night raised $1.5 million. She organized her group, Win with Black Women, in 2020 because of anger over how the Black women candidates in the running to be Biden’s VP were being portrayed in the media. All the familiar tropes—the Jezebel
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Thank you Jotaka lmao.
