Hickenlooper expected to announce run for president next week
by Zachary Halaschak
| March 01, 2019 07:33 PM
John Hickenlooper has scheduled an event in Denver on March 7 where he is expected to join the throng of Democrats vying for the White House in 2020.
The former Democratic governor of Colorado, who has been mulling a run for months, received a permit to hold an event billed as a “celebration†in Denver’s Civic Center Park, the Colorado Sun reports. Sources close to Hickenlooper said Thursday that Hickenlooper would be announcing a run sometime during the first week of March.
Hinkenlooper, 67, will be part of a large field of Democratic candidates and will start firmly in the second tier, behind big names like Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Cory Booker and Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Former Vice President Joe Biden and former Rep. Beto O'Rourke have yet to announce decisions on whether to run.
Andy Boian, a political strategist who has informally advised the former governor over the years, told news outlet KDVR that Hickenlooper is running. “Hickenlooper is going to announce he is running for President of the United States at this event,†he said.
The March 7 permit indicates that 2,000 people are expected to attend the event.
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