Article content

A former Westmount High student could prevent U.S. President Donald Trump from winning a second term in 2020. Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) is considered by many to be a potential candidate to give Trump a run for his money.

At a time when the Democratic Party is looking for a new identity, some betting websites have placed her in front for the Democratic nomination. Mother Jones, a current-affairs magazine, recently argued that she is “one of the Democrats who could beat Trump in the 2020 presidential election.” In 2015, the Washington Post ran a profile of her under the headline: Is Kamala Harris the next Barack Obama?

We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or Will ex-Montrealer Kamala Harris be the one to unseat Donald Trump? Back to video

Yet very few people know of her connection to Montreal.

Wanda Kagan, now a co-ordinator at the Jewish General Hospital’s internal medicine department, fondly remembers Harris, who she said was her best friend and with whom she founded a troupe of six dancers called “Midnight Magic.” The future politician wrote in the 1981 Westmount yearbook that dancing with the troupe was her favourite pastime.