'Bring it': Kamala Harris' inner circle girds for battle

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Douglas Emhoff gesture at Kamala's Presidential Campaign headquarters in Wilmington, DE, U.S., July 22, 2024. Erin Schaff/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kamala Harris is preparing for the fight of her life, if her inner circle is anything to go by.

The vice president has surrounded herself with a group of tested operators, many of them Black women who have been involved in Democratic politics for decades, as she gears up for a brutal three months of campaigning before the Nov. 5 election.