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Sen. Kamala Harris will run for president in 2020, sources tell CBS News

The former prosecutor is expected to announce her candidacy before the end of the month.
Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) talks to reporters with Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) (R) following the weekly Democratic Senate policy luncheon in the U.S. Capitol November 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. Senate Democrats strongly voiced their opposition to the appointment of Thomas Farr to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, 54, will run for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, sources close to the former California attorney general told CBS News.

The network reports Harris is expected to announce her candidacy around Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which is Jan. 21, likely at a campaign rally in Oakland -- where she was born and later served as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County.

Sources tell CBS News the timing and location of her anticipated announcement are still subject to change.

Harris was sworn in as the junior senator from California in 2017.

Related: Eyeing 2020, Kamala Harris addresses prosecutorial past in memoir

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