Kamala Harris insists that she is still a leading candidate for 2020; says Trump has "degraded" the presidency

US Senator Kamala Harris emphasized that she remains a leading candidate for the Democratic presidency of 2020.

"Of course, I'm part of this higher echelon and we all know it," the California Democrat told Fox News and Seacoast Online on Friday night, during an interview given at a fund-raising gala organized by the party in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

At the end of June, Mrs. Harris saw her vote increase after what was considered a good performance in the first round of primary debates in the Democratic presidential election in Miami. integration of school transportation.

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Harris, however, has seen a slight deterioration in the number of polls in recent weeks. She currently ranks in the top ranks at most polling stations in the race for Democratic nomination. At the same time, most polls show that Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts are competing for second place behind Biden, who remains the leader five months before the end of the elections, whether on the primary calendar or caucus.

Harris has once again pointed out that New Hampshire – which is organizing the first primary in the White House race – is "a priority for me. That's why we have offices in the field. We have staff on the ground.

And she pointed out that she was not worried about the situation of her current election, noting that "the only poll that matters is polling day".

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Later, in his speech to the Portsmouth Democrats, Harris spoke to President Trump.

"We have a guy in the White House who has degraded the position of president," she said. "He does not understand what it means to be powerful. Because when you really understand what it means to be powerful, you understand that the greatest measure of your strength is not what you fight, it is what you bring up.

"We have a guy in the White House who has degraded the position of president. He does not understand what it means to be powerful. Because when you really understand what it means to be powerful, you understand that the greatest measure of your strength is not what you are defeating, it is what you are raising.

– US Senator Kamala Harris, Democrat in the presidential election

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Harris, as she often does in her stump speech, said she was best qualified for the Democratic White House and hopes to pursue the case against Trump.

But she added, "This campaign must be more important than that, it must be more than that."