Kamala Harris' bestie: who is Laurene Powell Jobs and what role the richest woman in Silicon Valley plays in the upcoming U.S. election

The fight for the US presidency between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is fierce, but it seems that the former has a better chance of winning thanks to a large number of acquaintances and the support of influencers. For example, Lauren Powell Jobs, the widow of the famous entrepreneur and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, has become one of Harris's most important confidants over the past 20 years.

Thanks to her, the presidential candidate became widely known in America even before her position as Vice President of the United States. The richest woman in the famous Silicon Valley, Lauren provided Kamala Harris with advice and money to create a stable career foundation, the New York Times reports.

Insiders tell the media that she secretly contributed millions of dollars to an organization supporting Kamala Harris in the presidential race. Another of Lauren Powell Jobs' contributions to politics was helping a woman "usher Mr. Biden out of the race, which cleared the way for a Harris run."

"Laurene has a gift for friendship, especially old friends — she is tribally loyal," said David Bradley, who sold The Atlantic magazine to Emerson Collective, owned by Powell Jobs.

According to the source, Powell Jobs donated $500 to Harris's first candidacy for the San Francisco district attorney in 2003. "She was helpful early on in Kamala’s career," explained activist Andrea Dew Steele.

Kamala Harris and Lauren Powell Jobs were such close friends that they often attended family parties and events in a limited circle of people. "Even as Ms. Harris’s career took her to Sacramento and Washington, they have gone on personal trips together, with Ms. Harris at times flying on Ms. Powell Jobs’s private plane," the New York Times reports.

Kamala Harris's presidential campaign actually began not in 2024, but in 2017. During an interview, Lauren Powell Jobs, answering a journalist's question about her possible run for the US presidency in 2020, "turned the question into an opportunity to promote Ms. Harris, then a newly elected senator from California."

Even at that time, the wife of the late Steve Jobs was already campaigning, "I vote for her."

During the period when Kamala Harris was Vice President, Lauren Powell had a tense relationship with then-President Joe Biden. The woman did not believe that the 81-year-old politician would be able to win the race again, so her goal was to make sure that the Democrats did not lose to the Republicans, led by Donald Trump.

"As Mr. Biden insisted that he would not leave the race, Ms. Harris quietly tried to survey her options and navigate the sensitive politics of the moment. Among those she turned to for counsel was Ms. Powell Jobs. Just weeks later, Ms. Powell Jobs was at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, sitting at times in Ms. Harris’s exclusive friends and family box and watching her companion formally accept the party’s nomination for president," the source said.

It turned out that Powell Jobs personally called female leaders in the technology industry and urged them to publicly support Kamala Harris in the presidential election. It is not known whether the campaigning of such stars as Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Jennifer Lopez and Meryl Streep is also her handiwork.

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