Kamala Harris runs in US Presidential election

Harris would be the first African-American woman and the first Asian-American woman to serve in the US Senate, declared her candidacy for President.

She made the announcement during an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and in a video that her campaign posted online.

“The future of our country depends on you and millions of others lifting our voices to fight for our American values,” she said in the video. “That’s why I’m running for US President.”

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

If elected, Harris would become the first female and first Asian American to ever serve as US President, in addition to being the second African American elected president following President Barack Obama in 2008.

Harris is the third black woman to seek the Democratic nomination for President, the first two being Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm in 1972 and Senator Carol Moseley Braun in 2004./.