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By Shannon Power
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Maya Harris, sister of Vice-President Kamala Harris, predicted her sibling's potential rise to the White House.
Harris is front-runner for the Democratic nomination for November's presidential election after President Joe Biden stepped down from the race on Sunday and endorsed her to fill his shoes.
But prior to entering politics, Harris worked as a public prosecutor and was California's attorney general before becoming a federal senator in 2016.
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It was in that role as attorney general that Harris appeared alongside her sister to speak at Women in the World conference about their work as lawyers and the justice system in 2012.
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Outside of their conference appearance, the Harris women sat down for a joint interview with Newsweek and The Daily Beast, where Maya predicted a presidential run was in the future for her older sister.
The pair were joking how Maya refused to call her sister "General Harris"—the official title for a sitting attorney general—and was asked what she preferred to call her.
"When she was elected attorney general, she actually said, 'You realize you're going to have to start calling me General Harris,'" Maya began and added, "So my feeling is when she's President of the United States, I will call her 'Miss President,' but until then you're just Kamala."
Harris and her sister Maya then laughed, before the former replied: "No, I'm Big Sister... Big Sister General!" And the pair burst into laughter.
The clip was shared to X, formerly Twitter, by @notcapnamerica with the caption: "The way @mayaharris_ predicted this," and people in the replies agreed.
"I wish I could like this a thousand times because it's so adorable. But also because I'm so giddy about #HarrisForPotus2024 and I can't stop smiling," wrote @dcpoll.
"I absolutely love this. KaMALA. Make America Laugh Again. 💙💃" added @sandiechill.
And @clarissa_laskey posted: "'When she's President of the United States' Say that LOUDER 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽."
Newsweek contacted Maya Harris through her personal website for comment.
The vice-president was also asked about her political ambitions during the Women in the World conference.
Harris said it was bad luck to ponder about these things and she wanted to focus on her job at that time.
"We are incredibly superstitious... firmly believe that you have to do what's in front of you well, and the next thing will come," she said. "I've seen many so focused on that thing out there, that they trip over this thing here."
The younger Harris sister is herself no stranger to politics and worked as a senior policy adviser to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her 2016 presidential run. Maya was also the campaign chairwoman for her sister's 2020 campaign for president.
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