candidates for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2020 election.

 candidates for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2020 election.

Name	Born	Experience	State	Campaign Announcement date	Ref.
Michael Bennet	November 28, 1964 (age 54) New Delhi, India	U.S. senator from Colorado (2009–present)	Colorado	Campaign Campaign: May 2, 2019 FEC filing[42]	[43]
Joe Biden	November 20, 1942 (age 76) Scranton, Pennsylvania	Vice President of the United States (2009–2017) U.S. senator from Delaware (1973–2009) Democratic candidate for President in 1988 and 2008	Delaware	Campaign Campaign: April 25, 2019 FEC filing[44]	[45]
Cory Booker	April 27, 1969 (age 50) Washington, D.C.	U.S. senator from New Jersey (2013–present) Mayor of Newark, New Jersey (2006–2013)	New Jersey	Campaign Campaign: February 1, 2019 FEC filing[46]	[47]
Steve Bullock	April 11, 1966 (age 53) Missoula, Montana	Governor of Montana (2013–present) Attorney General of Montana (2009–2013)	Montana	Campaign Campaign: May 14, 2019 FEC filing[48]	[49][50]
Pete Buttigieg	January 19, 1982 (age 37) South Bend, Indiana	Mayor of South Bend, Indiana (2012–present) Democratic nominee for Indiana Treasurer in 2010	Indiana	Campaign Exploratory committee: January 23, 2019 Campaign: April 14, 2019 FEC filing[51]	[52]
Julián Castro	September 16, 1974 (age 44) San Antonio, Texas	Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (2014–2017) Mayor of San Antonio, Texas (2009–2014)	Texas	Campaign Exploratory committee: December 12, 2018 Campaign: January 12, 2019 FEC filing[53]	[54]
Bill de Blasio	May 8, 1961 (age 58) Manhattan, New York	Mayor of New York City, New York (2014–present)	New York	Campaign Campaign: May 16, 2019 FEC filing[55]	[56]
John Delaney	April 16, 1963 (age 56) Wood-Ridge, New Jersey	U.S. representative from MD-06 (2013–2019)	Maryland	Campaign Campaign: July 28, 2017 FEC filing[57]	[58]
Tulsi Gabbard	April 12, 1981 (age 38) Leloaloa, American Samoa	U.S. representative from HI-02 (2013–present)	Hawaii	Campaign Campaign: January 11, 2019 FEC filing[59]	[60]
Kirsten Gillibrand	December 9, 1966 (age 52) Albany, New York	U.S. senator from New York (2009–present) U.S. representative from NY-20 (2007–2009)	New York	Campaign Exploratory committee: January 15, 2019 Campaign: March 17, 2019 FEC filing[61]	[62]
Kamala Harris	October 20, 1964 (age 54) Oakland, California	U.S. senator from California (2017–present) Attorney General of California (2011–2017)	California	Campaign Campaign: January 21, 2019 FEC filing[63]	[64]
John Hickenlooper	February 7, 1952 (age 67) Narberth, Pennsylvania	Governor of Colorado (2011–2019) Mayor of Denver, Colorado (2003–2011)	Colorado	Campaign Campaign: March 4, 2019 FEC filing[65]	[66]
Jay Inslee	February 9, 1951 (age 68) Seattle, Washington	Governor of Washington (2013–present) U.S. representative from WA-01 (1999–2012) U.S. representative from WA-04 (1993–1995)	Washington	Campaign Campaign: March 1, 2019 FEC filing[67]	[68]
Amy Klobuchar	May 25, 1960 (age 59) Plymouth, Minnesota	U.S. senator from Minnesota (2007–present)	Minnesota	Campaign Campaign: February 10, 2019 FEC filing[69]	[70]
Wayne Messam	June 7, 1974 (age 45) South Bay, Florida	Mayor of Miramar, Florida (2015–present)	Florida	Campaign Exploratory committee: March 13, 2019 Campaign: March 28, 2019 FEC filing[71]	[72]
Seth Moulton	October 24, 1978 (age 40) Salem, Massachusetts	U.S. representative from MA-06 (2015–present)	Massachusetts	Campaign Campaign: April 22, 2019 FEC filing[73]	[74]
Beto O'Rourke	September 26, 1972 (age 46) El Paso, Texas	U.S. representative from TX-16 (2013–2019) Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate from Texas in 2018	Texas	Campaign Campaign: March 14, 2019 FEC filing[75]	[76]
Tim Ryan	July 16, 1973 (age 46) Niles, Ohio	U.S. representative from OH-13 (2013–present) U.S. representative from OH-17 (2003–2013)	Ohio	Campaign Campaign: April 4, 2019 FEC filing[77]	[78]
Bernie Sanders	September 8, 1941 (age 77) Brooklyn, New York	U.S. senator from Vermont (2007–present) U.S. representative from VT-AL (1991–2007) Mayor of Burlington, Vermont (1981–1989) Democratic candidate for President in 2016 Candidate for Governor of Vermont in 1972, 1976, and 1986	Vermont	Campaign Campaign: February 19, 2019 FEC filing[79]	[80]
Joe Sestak	December 12, 1951 (age 67) Secane, Pennsylvania	U.S. representative from PA-07 (2007–2011) Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania in 2016 and 2010	Pennsylvania	Campaign Campaign: June 22, 2019 FEC filing[81]	[82]
Tom Steyer	June 27, 1957 (age 62) Manhattan, New York	Hedge fund manager Founder of Farallon Capital	California	Campaign Campaign: July 9, 2019	[83]
Elizabeth Warren	June 22, 1949 (age 70) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma	U.S. senator from Massachusetts (2013–present)	Massachusetts	Campaign Exploratory committee: December 31, 2018 Campaign: February 9, 2019 FEC filing[84]	[85]
Marianne Williamson	July 8, 1952 (age 67) Houston, Texas	Author Founder of Project Angel Food Independent candidate for U.S. House from CA-33 in 2014	Iowa	Campaign Exploratory committee: November 15, 2018 Campaign: January 28, 2019 FEC filing[86]	[87]
Andrew Yang	January 13, 1975 (age 44) Schenectady, New York	Entrepreneur Founder of Venture for America	New York	Campaign Campaign: November 6, 2017 FEC filing[88]	[8

Kamala Harris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris

Kamala Harris was born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California to a Tamil Indian mother and a Jamaican father. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, was a breast-cancer scientist who immigrated to the United States from Madras (present-day Chennai), India in 1960.^[3][4] She insisted on giving her daughters Sanskrit names derived from Hindu mythology to help preserve their cultural identity.^[5] Her father, Donald Harris, is a Stanford University economics professor who emigrated from Jamaica in 1961 for graduate study in economics at University of California, Berkeley.^[6][7] Recalling the lives of his grandmothers, Donald Harris wrote that one was related to a plantation and slave owner while the other had unknown ancestry.^[8] She identifies as Indian and black. In a 2019 interview, Kamala Harris said, "'I am black and I am proud of it.'"^[9] 


Harris's family lived in Berkeley, California, where both of her parents attended graduate school.^[10] She was close to her maternal grandfather, P. V. Gopalan, an Indian diplomat.^[4][11] As a child, she often visited her extended family in the Besant Nagar neighborhood of Chennai, Tamil Nadu.^[12] She grew up going to both a Baptist black church and a Hindu temple.^[13] 

Harris began kindergarten during the second year of Berkeley's school desegregation busing program, which pioneered the extensive use of busing to bring racial balance to each of the city's public schools; a bus took her to a school which two years earlier had been 95% white.^[17][18] Her parents divorced when she was seven, and her mother was granted custody of the children.^[10][8] After the divorce, when Harris was 12,^[19] her mother moved with the children to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where Shyamala accepted a position doing research at Jewish General Hospital and teaching at McGill University.^[20][21]

As a teenager she co-founded a small dance troupe of six dancers that played at community center and fundraisers.^[22] At Westmount High School in Westmount, Quebec, she was a popular student.^[23]

After graduating in 1981,^[24][25] Harris majored in political science and economics at Howard University in Washington, D.C.^[26][27] At Howard, she was elected to the liberal-arts student council as freshman class representative, was a member of the debate team, and joined the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.^[26]

Harris returned to California, where she earned her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1989.^[7][28] She was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1990.^[29]