TABLE OF CONTENTS

So far, this is mostly taken from https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_candidates,_2020. The plan is to add more as I start to do my research.

I am not registered with either (why are there only two?) political party.

Useful Resources

New Statements of Candidacy
- all
- dems
- repubs

Filed Notables

The following elected officials have filed to run for president with the Federal Election Commission or announced exploratory committees.

Julian Castro (D), a former U.S. secretary of housing and urban development and San Antonio mayor, formally announced his candidacy on January 12, 2019.
John Delaney (D), a former U.S. representative from Maryland, filed to run for president on August 10, 2017.
Tulsi Gabbard (D), a U.S. representative from Hawaii, announced that she had decided to run for president on January 11, 2019.
Kirsten Gillibrand (D), a U.S. senator from New York, announced that she was running for president on January 15, 2019.
Kamala Harris (D), a U.S. senator from California, announced that she was running for president on January 21, 2019.
- first female and Asian American to ever serve as President of the United States, in addition to being the second African American elected president following President Barack Obama in 2008. She will be 56 years old on Inauguration Day in January 2021
- Harris is the third black woman to seek the Democratic nomination for president, the first two being Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm in 1972 and Sen. Carol Moseley Braun in 2004 (the latter of whom is also the only other black woman to have ever served in the U.S. Senate)
- "Hell-No Caucus" by Politico in 2018, along with Senators Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, given she voted "overwhelmingly to thwart his (Trump's) nominees for administration jobs"
Richard Ojeda (D), a state senator from West Virginia, filed to run for president on November 11, 2018.
President Donald Trump (R) filed to run for re-election in 2020 on January 20, 2017.
Elizabeth Warren (D), U.S. senator from Massachusetts, announced she had formed an exploratory committee on December 31, 2018.

Dems

Politicians

Stacey Abrams, former member and minority leader, Georgia House of Representatives
Michael Bennet, U.S. senator from Colorado
Joe Biden, former vice president of the United States
Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City
Cory Booker, U.S. senator from New Jersey
Jerry Brown, former governor of California
Sherrod Brown, U.S. senator from Ohio
Steve Bullock, governor of Montana
Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana
Lincoln Chafee, former governor of and U.S. senator from Rhode Island
Hillary Clinton, former U.S. secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee
Roy Cooper, governor of North Carolina
Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York, New York
Eric Garcetti, mayor of Los Angeles, California
Andrew Gillum, former mayor of Tallahassee
Luis Gutierrez, former U.S. representative from Illinois
Maggie Hassan, U.S. senator from New Hampshire
John Hickenlooper, former governor of Colorado
Eric Holder, former attorney general of the United States
Jay Inslee, governor of Washington
Tim Kaine, U.S. senator from Virginia and 2016 Democratic vice presidential nominee
Jason Kander, former secretary of state of Missouri
Joe Kennedy III, U.S. representative from Massachusetts
John Kerry, former secretary of state of the United States and U.S. senator from Massachusetts
Amy Klobuchar, U.S. senator from Minnesota
Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana
Terry McAuliffe, former governor of Virginia
Jeff Merkley, U.S. senator from Oregon
Seth Moulton, U.S. representative from Massachusetts
Martin O'Malley, former governor of Maryland
Beto O'Rourke, former U.S. representative from Texas
Chris Murphy, U.S. senator from Connecticut
Gina Raimondo, governor of Rhode Island
Tim Ryan, U.S. representative from Ohio
Brian Schatz, U.S. senator from Hawaii
Bernie Sanders (I), U.S. senator from Vermont
Adam Schiff, U.S. representative from California
Eric Swalwell, U.S. representative from California
Sally Yates, former acting attorney general

Business executives and public figures

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase
Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Bob Iger, CEO of Disney
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, actor and professional wrestler
Michelle Obama, former first lady of the United States
Howard Schultz, former CEO of Starbucks
Oprah Winfrey, mass media owner and philanthropist
Andrew Yang, Venture for America founder
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder

Republicans