California Senator Kamala Harris Announces 2020 Run for President

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) speaks to reporters after announcing her candidacy for President of the United States, at Howard University, her alma mater, in Washington on Jan. 21, 2019. Harris is the first African-American woman to announce a run for the White House in 2020. Al Drago/Getty Images

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) announced Jan. 21 that she is running for president in 2020, the latest Democrat in a growing crowd of hopefuls seeking to challenge incumbent President Donald Trump.

Harris, who’s been considering running for months, told ABC’s Good Morning America that “I’m running for president of the United States, and I’m very excited about it.”