Rising star Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., met with some "key" Hillary Clinton donors in a wealthy New York resort enclave "as she takes a national stage and expands her influence and ambitions," the New York Post reported.

The freshman California senator and former San Francisco district attorney was the star attraction last Saturday at the Bridgehampton, Long Island, home of MWWPR CEO Michael Kempner – one of Clinton's national-finance co-chairs who led a fundraiser for her 2008 presidential bid, the Post's Page Six columnist Emily Smith reported.

Washington lobbyist Liz Robbins hosted a separate Hamptons lunch for Harris, the Post reported.

Harris shot into the headlines during a Senate intelligence committee hearing into President Donald Trump's ties to Russia, grilling Attorney General Jeff Sessions; she has voted "no" on 18 of Trump's 22 administration nominees, the Post reported.

"Kamala is the big Democratic star right now, at a time when they badly need a star," one unnamed Democratic insider told Smith. "She's coming to the Hamptons to meet key people as she takes a national stage, and expands her influence and ambitions."