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Republican President Donald Trump is up for re-election next year.

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Looking ahead to the 2020 election

President Donald Trump is up for re-election in November 2020 -- about 21 months away.

While no one has declared he or she will battle Trump for the Republican nomination for president in next year's primary, several Democrats have said they are or are considering joining the race.

This list was last updated Jan. 23, 2019.

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Mayor Pete Buttigieg talks with an AP reporter at Farmers Market in South Bend, Ind.

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Pete Buttigieg

Democrat Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is a Rhodes scholar who was first elected mayor of his hometown in 2011 at age 29, making him the youngest mayor of a U.S. city with at least 100,000 residents.

A lieutenant in the Navy Reserve, he served a tour in Afghanistan in 2014. He married his husband, a middle school teacher, in 2018.

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Former San Antonio Mayor and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro speaks during an event where he announced his decision to seek the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

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Julian Castro

Democratic presidential contender Julian Castro launched his campaign by pledging support for "Medicare for All," free universal preschool, a large public investment in renewable energy and two years of free college for all Americans.

He was HUD secretary under President Barack Obama and is a former mayor of San Antonio, Texas.

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Former Sen. John Delaney, D-Md., on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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John Delaney

The former congressman from Maryland announced back in July 2017 that he was running in 2020. He founded two commercial lending companies, becoming the youngest CEO of any firm traded on the New York Stock Exchange, along with a nonprofit.

After three terms, he did not run for re-election in 2018 to focus on his presidential campaign.

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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, greets supporters in Honolulu.

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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard

Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, the first Hindu elected to Congress, is an Iraq War veteran. She supported Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2016. "There is one main issue that is central to the rest, and that is the issue of war and peace," she has said.

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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., speaks during the New York Senate debate hosted by WABC-TV, in New York.

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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has moved left since her time representing a more conservative upstate House district. She moved to the Senate in 2009.

In the House, Gillibrand voted to increase funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which she recently said she wants to abolish. She also once supported border fencing, making English the official language of the U.S., and making it easier to deport undocumented immigrants, among other positions that she's largely repudiated.

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AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, 2019

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks to members of the media at her alma mater, Howard University, Monday, Jan. 21, 2019, in Washington.

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Sen. Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris, a first-term Democratic senator from California, is stressing her experience as a prosecutor. Harris, 54, is the fourth female member of Congress to dive into the race. She was the San Francisco district attorney.

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Richard Ojeda talks at a gym in Logan, W.Va., in May 2018.

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Richard Ojeda

A former state senator from West Virginia, he filed to run for president on November 11, 2018. He is a retired Army major who voted for Trump in 2016. He supports Medicare for all, legalized marijuana and government accountability.

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AP Photo/Carlos Giusti, 2019

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks at the "Community Conversation about Puerto Rico and its Recovery" held at the Alejandro Tapia y Rivera Theater, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tuesday Jan. 22, 2019.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren came onto the national scene a decade ago during the financial crisis with calls for greater consumer protections. She quickly became one of the party's more prominent liberals.

Warren's campaign is likely to revolve around the same theme she's woven into speeches and policy proposals in recent years: battling special interests, paying mind to the nexus between racial and economic inequities.

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Andrew Yang

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Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang is the founder of Venture for America, a nonprofit organization that promotes entrepreneurship, and an author. He filed to run in 2020 in November 2017. His slogan is "Humanity First," and he's proposed all U.S. citizens over the age of 18 receive $1,000/month from the government.

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The White House at sunset in Washington, D.C.

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