Kamala Harris, Tulsi Gabbard for the US Prez race

A week hasn’t passed since the US midterms, and a scramble is already on for the 2020 Presidential election with some two dozen aspirants for the Democratic ticket to run against Donald Trump. Among them are two candidates with strong “desi” ties: California Senator Kamala Harris and Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.

Both Harris and Gabbard have made early moves, reaching out to party workers and voters in Iowa whose caucuses kick off the 2020 presidential cycle on February 3, 2020. Although over a year away, presidential hopefuls begin connecting with party leaders, donors, and activists months in advance.

Harris, 49, spent several days in Iowa during the midterm poll canvassing for Democratic candidates, and reminiscing about her own work there during the historic 2008 Obama campaign when she said that in addition to door-knocking, she became the Obama campaign’s de facto pizza-delivery person because "no job was too small."


Elsewhere, Tulsi Gabbard, 37, fresh from a fourth-term victory in the congressional elections, was introduced at an LA conference as the next president. Politico magazine reported last month that Gabbard’s adviser, Rania Batrice, "is reaching out to speechwriters and digital campaign staff with no explicit mention of a 2020 run, but with such a time frame heavily implied."