Sen. Kamala Harris appears on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Jan. 21, 2019, after announcing she is running for president in 2020. (Photo by Lorenzo Bevilaqua/ABC via Getty Images)
Sen. Kamala Harris appears on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Jan. 21, 2019, after announcing she is running for president in 2020. (Photo by Lorenzo Bevilaqua/ABC via Getty Images)

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) announced on Martin Luther King Jr. Day her candidacy for president in 2020.

โ€œTruth, justice, decency, equality, freedom, democracy โ€” these arenโ€™t just words,โ€ the junior senator said early Monday in a video posted on her Twitter account. โ€œTheyโ€™re the values we as Americans cherish. And theyโ€™re all on the line now.

โ€œThe future of our country depends on you and millions of others lifting our voices to fight for our American values,โ€ she said. โ€œThatโ€™s why Iโ€™m running for president of the United States. Iโ€™m running to lift those voices, to bring our voices together.โ€

Harris told CNN Monday that the time has come to fight against what she views as the injustices of the past two years of the Trump presidency.

This correspondent is a guest contributor to The Washington Informer.

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