“Let’s be honest. It’s going to be ugly,” Harris told MSNBC’s Mike Brzezinski at a “Know Your Value” event in San Francisco on Saturday.

“When you break things, it is painful,” she continued. “And you get cut. And you bleed.”

Harris said she intends to make a decision about whether to run for president in 2020 over the holidays, adding that it will “ultimately be a family decision.”