Sen. Kamala Harris indicated Tuesday that she’s seriously considering a 2020 White House run, by saying her mother would have wanted her to fix what’s wrong with Washington, D.C.
In an ABC interview, Harris said her mother, who died in 2009, would think DC is a “hot mess.”
“And Kamala has to fix it?” George Stephanopoulos asked.
“Well yeah,” Harris said. “I mean, I was raised that when you see a problem, you don’t complain about it, you go and do something about it.”
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Sen. @KamalaHarris to @GStephanopoulos on if she will run for president in 2020: “I’m not going to decide right now”; says what we need “is leadership that has a vision of the future in which everyone can see themselves.” pic.twitter.com/b2MQUT5Y2C
— Good Morning America (@GMA) January 8, 2019
“I would get so upset at her when I got older,” Harris added. “I would come home with a problem, other parents would say, ‘Oh darling, I’ll take care of it.’ My mother, the first thing she would do, she’d look at us and she’d say, ‘Well, what did you do?'”
“So I think this is that moment,” she said. “And I believe for all of us, history will say and our children and our grandchildren will ask, at that inflection moment, where were you, and what did you do in service of your family, your neighborhood, your community and your country.”
While Harris sounded like she’s on the verge of running, she said at the top of the interview that she is “not going to decide right now.”
