Sen. Kamala Harris has not ruled out presidential bid

Courtesy of Sen. Kamala Harris

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CALIFORNIA'S Senator Kamala Harris has come close  to saying she is going to run for President in 2020.

As she was being interviewed Sunday (June 24) on MSNBC's "KasieDC,", she was asked by host Kasie Hunt to reveal her intentions. At first Harris tried to evade answering the question, giving her standard noncommittal reply to the query. "I'm focused on a lot of other things as a higher priority" than running for president, Harris said.

Pressed further, Harris said, "I'm not ruling it out, no."

Ever since Donald Trump upset Hillary Clinton in the 2016 elections, Democrats have been asking themselves, who would be the party's standard bearer in 2020.

Enter Kamala Harris, who had just won her contest to be the state's junior senator. The former Attorney General and District Attorney seemed to spark interest among the more slightly left-of-center Democrats. Harris has a law enforcement background, a woman, of mixed-race heritage since her mother was from India and her father from the Caribbean. Her positions on health care are close enough to lure some progressives to the center.

Her endorsement is sought by a host of Democratic candidates during the mid-terms, from Stacey Abrams in her bid for Georgia's governorship to California's Eleni Kounallakis's race for Lieutenant Governor to Ben Jealous' campaign for Maryland governorship. 

Her national name recognition took a jump as her proscutorial skills were displayed as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee questioning DOJ Secretary Jeff Sessions, who said that her aggressive questioning made him "nervous." 

She has proven herself to be an able fundraiser for the Party and other Democrats in their bid to retake Congress. Traditional Democratic fundraisers like her. Hollywood liberals like her. Conservataives hate her.

Harris' star is certainly on the rise and Republicans and conservative think tanks and media organs have begun printing stories that question her positions on various issues, from immigration to foreign policy.

Her name pops up whenever someone lists possible presidential candidates for 2020. For the past 18 months, he has carefully avoided announcing her future plans. Until Sunday.

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