Article snippet: PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Kamala Harris touted Medicare for all, an assault weapons ban, and the Green New Deal on her first visit to New Hampshire as a presidential candidate Monday. But the message she emphasized the most to Granite State voters was a simpler one: I’ll be back. “I just want to get this out of the way,” the freshman senator from California said to open up her packed town hall Monday evening in Portsmouth’s South Church. “I intend to compete in New Hampshire. I intend to spend time here. I intend to shake every hand that I possibly can.” Senator Bernie Sanders, who’s expected to enter the 2020 race soon, won New Hampshire with more than 60 percent of the vote in the last Democratic primary, and political watchers believe he and Senator Elizabeth Warren, who shares a similar message to Sanders, most likely have an edge here. But Harris went out of her way Monday to tell voters that she will spend significant time and effort on winning the state. “I plan on doing very well in New Hampshire,” she said. She also put some distance between herself and Sanders, who describes himself as a ‘‘democratic socialist,’’ when asked by a reporter if she believed she would have to embrace Sanders’s ideology to win New Hampshire. ‘‘The people of New Hampshire will tell me what’s required to compete in New Hampshire, but I will tell you I am not a democratic socialist,’’ Harris said. Harris has won statewide races in California three times over the years but doesn’t yet... Link to the full article to read more