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The 2020 presidential campaign of Kamala Harris, the junior United States Senator from California, officially began on January 21, 2019. Harris has been discussed throughout 2017, 2018 and 2019 as a potential top contender for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president.

Harris was the sixth office-holding Democrat to formally announce a campaign in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, joining Massachussetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, former Congressman John Delaney, former West Virginia State Senator Richard Ojeda, former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro, and fellow U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

If elected, Harris would become the first female and half-Asian American to ever serve as President of the United States, in addition to being the second African American elected president following President Barack Obama in 2008. She will be 56 years old on Inauguration Day in January 2021.

Harris is the third African-American woman to seek the Democratic nomination for president, the first two being Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm in 1972 and Sen. Carol Moseley Braun in 2004 (the latter of whom is also the only other black woman to have ever served in the U.S. Senate). Harris recognized Chisholm's campaign by using a similar color scheme and typography in her own campaign's promotional materials and logo. That red-and-yellow design could be seen in a video announcing Harris's run for president.

Background

Following the election of Donald Trump in 2016, Harris was named as part of the "Hell-No Caucus" by Politico in 2018, along with Senators Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, given she voted "overwhelmingly to thwart his nominees for administration jobs", such as with Rex Tillerson, Betsy DeVos and Mike Pompeo; all of the Senators in this group were considered potential 2020 presidential contenders at this point in time. Prior to announcing her candidacy, she had publicly stated that she is "not ruling it out". In December 2018, Harris announced that she planned on considering whether to run for president "over the holiday." The following month, it was confirmed that Harris was expected to make an official announcement around Martin Luther King Jr. Day regarding the 2020 election.

Announcement

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2019, January 21, Harris announced on Good Morning America that she would be seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. Campaign headquarters will be in Baltimore, Maryland, with a second office in Oakland, California.

Within 24 hours of the announcement, her campaign received over 1.5 million dollars in small donor donations from all 50 states. This record amount ties with the one set by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders during the 2016 election.

References

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15. Harris, Kamala (January 22, 2019). "Thanks to you, we surpassed $1.5 million in grassroots contributions in under 24 hours".
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External links

• Official website

• Current events from January 2019
• 2020 United States Democratic Party presidential campaigns