[dropcap size=big]C[/dropcap]alifornia Sen. Kamala Harris officially entered the 2020 presidential election on Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Harris made her announcement on Good Morning America. If elected, she would become the first woman and woman of color to serve as U.S. president.
“The thing about Dr. King that always inspires me is he was aspirational. He was aspirational like our country is aspirational,” Harris told morning show hosts Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos. “We know we have not yet reached those ideals, but our strength is that we fight to reach those ideals.”
Harris announced her bid ahead of fellow Californian, and mayor of L.A., Eric Garcetti, who is still mulling his own run for the White House in 2020 even while troubling signs in the city stall him, including homelessness, a teachers strike that remains unresolved, and an expanding FBI probe into corruption at City Hall.