Sen. Kamala Harris will make a decision about a presidential bid

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Sen. Kamala Harris has an important decision to make.

IN JUST A FEW WEEKS, California's Sen. Kamala Harris will make up her mind about a 2020 presidential bid.

"It will ultimately be a family decision," Harris, who represents California, told MSNBC's Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski at an event in San Francisco on Saturday (Dec. 1), according to Politico. "And over the holiday, I will make that decision with my family."

Harris is only two years into her first term as a U.S. Senator, but the day after Californians elected to have her as their senator, she has been tagged as someone who would run for President one day. Even her earliest supporters could not have guessed that her time to make that big move would come so soon.

A couple of days after she was elected senator, she told her supporters who were despondent about Trump's victory, "Do we retreat or do we fight? We fight!"

If she decides to run, Harris is aware that Republicans and their pack of anonymous donors and vicious PAC's will do everything to attack any opponent of Trump, even if it means attacking fellow Republicans who stray from the Trump path.

Harris acknowledged that, should she decide to run for president, the campaign would assuredly be difficult, especially as a woman of color. “Let’s be honest. It’s going to be ugly,” Harris said. “When you break things, it is painful. And you get cut. And you bleed.”

Harris is one of a crowded field that have been mentioned as potential candidates for president, but you can tell that she's a serious possible contender when conservative media like Fox News, Breitbart News and the Washington Examiner start printing negative articles about Harris and you can be sure the right-wing think tanks are looking into her background trying to find weaknesses they can exploit.

Adding fuel to the speculation about her future, Democratic digital consultant Shelby Cole, who played a key role in fundraising for Beto O'Rourke's remarkable but ultimatley unsuccessful senate race in Texas, has been hired by Authentic Campaigns, the firm founded and led by Mike Nellis, who is Harris' longtime top digital consultant. The move positions Cole to play a major role if the Harris runs for president.

Harris is the first Indian American woman elected to the Senate. The daughter of immigrants, her mother was from India and her father was from the Caribbean.

If the California senator decides to throw her hat in the ring to run against Trump, she will be joining a crowded field in 2020. Among those mentioned as possible Trump opponents are former Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State John Kerry). Some say former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton might consider another go at it. Also many consider as possible candidates: Senators Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Mark Warner, Corrie Booker and former Virginia Gov. Terry MacAulfiffe. 

The whittling down process to get the Democrat's nomination could be a donnybrook so damaging the survivor might have a hard time recovering to challenge Trump.

When Morning Joe host Brzezinski asked Harris what qualities the next president should have, Harris said: “I think Americans want in their next leader someone who will be honest, speak truth, who will have a vision for our country that is unburdened by what we’ve been, but instead can see who we can be. And they want in their leader someone who will paint a picture of the future in which everyone can see themselves.”

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