((VO))??Kamala Harris is officially in the 2020 race for President of the United States.????((SOT))??https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls7OSwHMoBc??:15??Credit: Kamala Harris/YouTube??The future of our country depends on you and millions of others, lifting our voices, to fight for our American values.

That’s why I’m running for President of the United States.”????((VO-Kamala Reuters))??According to ABC News the democratic senator is a rising star in the party who was elected as California's junior senator in 2016 after two terms as the state's attorney general.????((VO-Rally))??Harris hit the ground running with her first official presidential campaign speech on Sunday in Oakland California.????((VO-Tweet/Rally))??Her press secretary tweeted that she drew in more than 20-thousand people to her rally and according to the Washington Examiner the California senator could be generating more early buzz than former President Barack Obama did more than 10 years ago.

??????((VO-Bernie Sanders/Biden/Democrat Imagery))??High profile democrats like Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden could also throw their hats in the ring and real clear politics has them both leading Harris in early polls.????????((VO))??The Iowa Democratic Caucuses are still a little more than a year away according to the Des Moines Register but a former Obama adviser told the Los Angeles times, “she's a candidate who can go the distance.”??????