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At a rally Sunday in her hometown of Oakland, she officially launched her presidential campaign by tapping those same populist themes. A crowd that rally organizers estimated at 20,000 people filled the streets around a flag-draped Frank Ogawa Plaza, where Harris made her opening 2020 pitch: She will be the candidate who is both “a fighter for the people” and someone who can unite a country severed into partisan corners by saying that “we must seek truth, speak truth and fight for the truth.” “People in power are trying to convince us that the villain in our American story is each other. “Our United States of America is not about us against them. I’m running to be a president by the people, of the people, for all people.” Sunday’s rally capped a weeklong White House campaign rollout for Harris, 54, the former San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general, that highlighted her roots. The daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica announced her campaign on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on ABC’s “Good Morning America”; stopped by her alma mater, Howard University; then appeared at a fundraiser for Alpha Kappa Alpha, her college sorority, at a gala Friday in South Carolina, a key early primary state. Her speech Sunday offered a road map of where she will take her campaign — starting with a full embrace of the progressive agenda. She intends to pay for it by eliminating parts of President Trump’s tax law that benefited the wealthiest Americans and by placing a tax on financial institutions. She has also introduced legislation that would give a tax break to renters. Wicks was a top state organizer for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. “If I have the honor of being your president, I will tell you this: I am not perfect.