Amy Klobuchar Announces Her Candidacy - Updated

Minnesota senator Amy Khlobuchar officially announces her candidacy to be president:

“We must respect our frontline troops, diplomats, and intelligence officers … They deserve better than foreign policy by tweet,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar says as she officially launches 2020 presidential campaign https://t.co/tdAJEyLFUB pic.twitter.com/ECaq2wrZmD

— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) February 10, 2019

And here's some history:

25 years ago: Before 75 supporters in her Minneapolis neighborhood, 33-year-old attorney Amy Klobuchar launches campaign for Hennepin County Attorney pic.twitter.com/YyrxfMG4Kv

— Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) February 10, 2019

I'm adding her to the "I'm Running" list.

Potential Democratic Candidates, in alphabetical order:

Reminder: Not every name on this list is "viable" as a future nominee or president, or even seriously interested in running, necessarily. It's just a list of every name I've ever seen mentioned, anywhere, as someone who might run in 2020.

1. Stacey Abrams (2018 candidate for Georgia governor) added 1/3/19
2. Michael Bennet (Colorado Senator) added 2/10/19
3. Joe Biden (Former VP)
4. Michael Bloomberg (Former mayor of New York City)
5. Sherrod Brown (Ohio senator)
6. Jerry Brown (former Governor of California)
7. Steve Bullock (Governor of Montana)
8. Mark Cuban (Businessman, owner of the Dallas Mavericks)
9. Bill de Blasio (Mayor of New York City)
10. John Hickenlooper (Governor of Colorado) 
11. Eric Holder (Former Attorney General)
12. Jay Inslee (Governor of Washington)
13. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (Actor) added Nov. 10
14. Tim Kaine (Virginia senator, 2016 VP nominee)
15. Joe Kennedy (Congressman from Massachusetts) added Nov. 10
16. John Kerry (former Secretary of State, 2004 Democratic nominee) added Nov. 10 
17. Terry McAuliffe (Former governor of Virginia)
18. Jeff Merkley (Oregon senator)
19. Seth Moulton (Congressman from Massachusetts) 
20. Chris Murphy (Connecticut senator)
21. Beto O'Rourke (Former Texas Congressman, ran a close race for a U.S. senate seat from Texas) added Sept. 13
22. Tim Ryan (Congressman from Ohio) added Sept. 8
23. Bernie Sanders (Vermont senator, registered Independent, ran in 2016 primaries)
24. Eric Swalwell (Congressman from California) added Nov. 8
25. Mark Warner (Virginia senator) added Nov. 10
26. Mark Zuckerberg (Businessman, founder of Facebook)

I'm Running: Declared Democratic Candidates, in order of their announcement

1. John Delaney (7/28/17) 
2. Andrew Yang (11/6/17) 
3. Elizabeth Warren (12/31/18)
4. Tulsi Gabbard (1/11/19)
5. Julián Castro (1/12/19)
6. Kirsten Gillibrand (1/16/19)  
7. Kamala Harris (1/21/19)
8. Pete Buttigieg (1/23/19)
9. Howard Schultz (1/29/19) * Running as an Independent 
10. Marianne Williamson (1/30/19)
11. Cory Booker (2/1/19)
12. Amy Klobuchar (2/10/19)

I'm Not Running

Oprah Winfrey

Andrew Cuomo
Sheryl Sandberg, added Sept. 8
Jason Kander, added Oct. 17
Robert Iger, added Oct. 22
Michael Avenatti, December 4, 2018
Deval Patrick, December 5, 2018
Martin O'Malley, January 3, 2019
Luis Gutierrez, added January 7, 2019
Tom Steyer, January 9, 2019
Bob Casey, January 19, 2019
Eric Garcetti, January 29, 2019
Andrew Gillum, January 29, 2019
Mitch Landrieu: added February 11, 2019

I'm Not Running Anymore: Declared candidates who have dropped out

Richard Ojeda (1/25/19)

Apparently Colorado senator Michael Bennet is thinking about running too:

Colorado Sen. Bennet hints about joining crowded Democratic race for president Via @costareports https://t.co/1KkM7rNf31

— Matt Viser (@mviser) February 10, 2019

Bennet was one of four Democrats, along with Kamala Harris, Tim Kaine and Pete Buttigieg, named by outgoing president Obama as the future of the party in a 2017 New Yorker article. Of the four, only 2016 Vice Presidential nominee Tim Kaine is not currently running, or thinking about running, for president. (Read the New Yorker article here.)

I've added Bennet to the "Potential Candidates" list above.

Days until Election Day: 631

Update on Monday morning. I just read that former New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu recently said he won't run. I'm moving him to the "I'm Not Running" list.