WILMINGTON, Del. _ Kerri Evelyn Harris keeps a photograph of herself with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez taped to a wall inside her campaign headquarters. She was standing next to it when she started to made bold predictions about the future of the Democratic Party.
"2018 is just the beginning," she said of Ocasio-Cortez's shock victory in New York over a House Democratic leader, a win Harris sees as only the start of the progressive insurgency against her party. "Every election cycle we're just going to see more and more regular people running because they know they have the ability to serve their communities."
Harris is trying to do her part to make history on Thursday, when she takes on incumbent Democratic Sen. Tom Carper in Delaware's Senate primary. Her chances of victory are difficult to predict: By traditional measures, she's a clear underdog, running against a better-funded, better-known incumbent, who is seeking his fourth term in the Senate after also serving as governor.
