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    Democratic candidates compete to claim Obama legacy

    by Janet Hook, Los Angeles Times Feb 16, 2019 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON_Sen. Kamala Harris has been called the "female Barack Obama." Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke has been referred to as "Barack Obama, but white." Sen. Cory Booker sings from the Obama hymnal of hope and optimism. Joe Biden, as Obama's vice president, is closer to the former president than anyone running for the White House in 2020.

    In the rapidly growing Democratic candidate field, an under-the-radar competition is brewing over who is the clearest heir to former President Barack Obama's political legacy.

    Many of the Democrats running or thinking about it have made pilgrimaged to Obama's office to seek his counsel. Some have found ways to casually drop that fact into televised interviews.

    "I can't think of a better person to get advice from," Sen. Amy Klobuchar said in an MSNBC

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