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Stephen Colbert was unable to get a definite answer from Sen. Kamala Harris about running for president in 2020. |
Harris, 54, has been coy about her intentions, but has been tagged as a rising star in the Democratic Party since she won the Senate race in 2016. She previously had served two terms as California’s Attorney General after being San Francisco’s chief prosecutor as District Attorney.
Matier cited unnamed sources for his story. The Indian American senator previously had said that would should announce her intentions after the holidays, but that did not happen.
California’s junior senator made the rounds on the morning talk shows this week promoting her new books, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey and an accompanying children’s picture book.
These days it seems a book is a prerequisite for running for president. The release of her book this week has only increased anticipation for a presidential announcement.
On every show she was asked about her plans for 2020 and she has managed not to give a straight yes or no. Last night (Dec. 10) she teased Late Show host Stephen Colbert when he asked her if she was ready to declare a candidacy for president. She laughed when she responded, "I might."
That's as close as anyone has gotten to a straight answer.
On Tuesday, she told the women of The View that the oountry is "absolutely" ready to elect a woman of color to the highest office in the country.
"I will say that we have to give the American people more credit. And we have to understand that the American public and the people of our country are smart people who will make decisions about who will be their leader based on who they believe is capable, who they believe has an honest desire to lead, to represent, to see them, to be a voice for them even if they have no power, and those are the kinds of people who we are as a country," she said.
“I think a mishandled announcement can hurt more than a well-handled announcement helps,” Joel Benenson, a veteran of former President Barack Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns, told Politico. “A good announcement is important only because a bad announcement will create some press narrative that will slow you down in the beginning.”To win, Harris will have to overcome a lack of national name recognition despite taking a prominent role during the Senate nomination hearing for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
“Harris is well known in California, but she and the other candidates are still in the single digits nationally,” University of San Francisco political science Professor James Taylor said.
“Right now, Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden are the only candidates with double digit support in national polls,” he said.
Views From the Edge contributed to this report.
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