US: Indian-origin senator Kamala Harris considering presidential bid in 2020 elections

Harris is considered to be close to Obama, who endorsed her in various elections including that of the US Senate in 2016.

Kamala Harris (FILES) (Photo by CHRIS DELMAS / AFP)

New Delhi: The first Indian-origin US senator Kamala Harris is mulling over a presidential bid in 2020 elections. She said she will take the final decision during the upcoming holiday season, as per media reports. Harris, who was popularly termed as female Obama during the Obama era said that her decision to whether run for the president post will be a family decision. The 54 year old Democrat said it will ultimately be a family decision. "And over the holiday I will make that decision with my family," she told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski on Saturday during an event in San Francisco. Harris is considered to be close to Obama, who endorsed her in her various elections including that of the US Senate in 2016. She ranked fifth in a November poll of Democratic voters' preferred nominee to take on President Donald Trump's reelection bid, the Politico News reported. Kamala Harris’ mother Shyama Gopalan had migrated to US from Chennai, India in 1960. She studied science, specifically endocrinology and complex mechanisms of cancer. Her father Donald Harris a Jamaican-American studied economics in US after becoming a national scholar in Jamaica.