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dropped out
29 dropped out
The 2020 presidential election season is now upon us, and we’re keeping track of where all the active candidates stand: Who’s running, who isn’t running, and who has dropped out. We’ll be updating this list as candidates declare their intentions or drop out, so keep checking in.
running
DEM

Joe Biden, 77
Former Vice President

Biden’s US Senate career stretches back to 1973. He ran for president in 1988 and again in 2008 before joining Barack Obama’s ticket.
GOP

Donald Trump, 73
President of the United States

Trump is the 45th president of the United States. He spent decades as a brash real estate developer before branching into reality TV in 2004. He ran for president as a newcomer to politics in 2016.
dropped out
DEM

Michael Bennet, 55
US Senator from Colorado

Bennet is the former superintendent of the Denver schools and has been in the Senate since 2009.
DEM

Michael Bloomberg, 78
Former New York City Mayor

Bloomberg, a Medford native, created a media company and was elected New York City mayor – once as a Republican and again as an independent. He is now a registered Democrat.
DEM

Cory Booker, 50
US Senator from New Jersey

He has served in the US Senate since 2013, and his rise to become mayor of Newark was depicted in a movie.
DEM

Steve Bullock, 53
Governor of Montana

Bullock served as Montana’s attorney general before being elected governor twice.
DEM

Pete Buttigieg, 38
Former South Bend (Ind.) Mayor

Buttigieg is an Afghanistan war veteran, Rhodes scholar, and Harvard graduate. He’s the first openly gay Democratic presidential candidate.
DEM

Julián Castro, 45
Former HUD Secretary

Castro served as Secretary of Housing and Economic Development under President Obama following about five years as mayor of San Antonio, Texas. His twin brother, Joaquin, is also a politician.
DEM

Bill de Blasio, 58
New York City Mayor

de Blasio, who grew up in Cambridge, has been reelected twice as New York City mayor.
DEM

John Delaney, 56
Former US Representative from Maryland

The former congressman announced his candidacy in July 2017.
DEM

Tulsi Gabbard, 38
US Representative from Hawaii

Gabbard is an Iraq war veteran and was the youngest woman elected to a state legislature when she won a House seat in Hawaii in 2002. She represents the state’s Second Congressional District.
DEM

Kirsten Gillibrand, 53
US Senator from New York

Gillibrand represented New York’s 20th Congressional District before being appointed to HIllary Clinton’s Senate seat in 2009. She won a special election for the seat and then was re-elected in 2012 and 2018.
DEM

Kamala Harris, 55
US Senator from California

Harris was elected to the Senate in 2017. She began her elected career as district attorney in San Francisco and was later attorney general for the state of California.
DEM

John Hickenlooper, 68
Former Governor of Colorado

A former brewer, Hicklenlooper was the Denver mayor before serving two terms as governor.
DEM

Jay Inslee, 69
Governor of Washington State

Inslee is a former congressman and two-time elected governor.
DEM

Amy Klobuchar, 59
US Senator from Minnesota

Klobuchar was the elected prosecutor in Minnesota’s largest county before winning her Senate seat in 2006.
DEM

Seth Moulton, 41
US Representative from Massachusetts

Moulton is an Iraq war veteran who has represented Massachusetts’ Sixth Congressional District since 2015. He unsuccessfully worked to oust Nancy Pelosi as leader of the House Democrats last fall.
DEM

Beto O’Rourke, 47
Former US Representative from Texas

Before losing his bid to unseat US Senator Ted Cruz, O’Rourke represented Texas’ 16th Congressional District and served on the El Paso City Council.
DEM

Richard Ojeda, 49
Former West Virginia State Senator

A former Trump supporter and combat veteran, Ojeda led a teachers’ strike and was elected to the West Virginia Senate.
DEM

Deval Patrick, 63
Former governor of Massachusetts

Patrick is a former Massachusetts governor who was a political newcomer when he mounted a 2005 bid for the corner office. He is a Harvard Law grad who worked in the Clinton administration and as a corporate attorney before entering politics.
DEM

Tim Ryan, 46
US Representative from Ohio

Ryan, a former state lawmaker in Ohio, has been representing the state in the US House since 2003.
DEM

Bernie Sanders, 78
US Senator from Vermont

Sanders has represented Vermont in the US Senate since 2007 and in the US House for the 16 years prior. He ran for president in 2016 and lost a contentious primary campaign to Hillary Clinton.
DEM

Joe Sestak, 68
Former congressman from Pennsylvania

Sestak is a former three-star admiral and served two terms in the US House of Representatives.
DEM

Tom Steyer, 62
California businessman

The Democratic mega-donor and environmentalist has created the “Need to Impeach” movement against Trump.
DEM

Eric Swalwell, 39
US Representative from California

Swalwell ousted a longtime incumbent and fellow Democrat to win his congressional seat in California in 2012.
DEM

Elizabeth Warren, 70
US Senator from Massachusetts

An Oklahoma native, Warren was a Harvard law professor who specialized in bankruptcy and commercial law. In 2010, she was tasked with setting up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under President Obama. She won a US Senate seat in 2012.
DEM

Marianne Williamson, 67
Author and speaker

Williamson is an author, speaker, and activist who has written over a dozen books. She founded a nonprofit dedicated to supporting people living with AIDS in the 1980s.
DEM

Andrew Yang, 45
California entrepreneur

An entrepreneur, Yang is running on the idea of the federal government providing a univerisal basic income for everyone.
GOP

Mark Sanford, 59
Former congressman and South Carolina governor

Sanford is a former South Carolina governor who was censured by the state legislature after disclosure of an extramarital affair.
GOP

Joe Walsh, 58
Former congressman and talk radio host

Walsh was elected to Congress amid the Tea Party wave of 2010 and later hosted a syndicated talk radio show.
GOP

Bill Weld, 74
Former governor of Massachusetts

Weld served as governor of Massachusetts from 1991 until resigning in the summer of 1997 to lobby for Senate confirmation to be Ambassador to Mexico. He ran for vice president as a libertarian in 2016.
not running
DEM

Stacey Abrams
2018 Democratic nominee for Georgia governor
DEM

Michael Avenatti
Stormy Daniels lawyer
DEM

Sherrod Brown
US Senator from Ohio
DEM

Bob Casey
US Senator from Pennsylvania
DEM

Hillary Clinton
2016 Democratic presidential nominee
DEM

Andrew Cuomo
Governor of New York
DEM

Eric Garcetti
Los Angeles Mayor
DEM

Mike Gravel
Former senator from Alaska
DEM

Eric Holder
Former US Attorney General
DEM

John Kerry
Former US Secretary of State
DEM

Mitch Landrieu
Former New Orleans Mayor
DEM

Terry McAuliffe
Former Governor of Virginia
DEM

Jeff Merkley
US Senator from Oregon
DEM

Chris Murphy
US Senator from Connecticut
DEM

Adam Schiff
US Representative from California
DEM

Oprah Winfrey
Media mogul
IND

Howard Schultz
Starbucks founder
GOP

Bob Corker
Former US Senator, Tennessee
GOP

Jeff Flake
Former US Senator, Arizona
GOP

Nikki Haley
Former UN ambassador
GOP

Larry Hogan
Governor of Maryland
GOP

John Kasich
Former governor of Ohio
GOP

Mitt Romney
US Senator from Utah and former governor of Massachusetts
GOP

Ben Sasse
US Senator from Nebraska
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