Chelsea Manning, the former US soldier who leaked over 700,000 military intelligence documents to WikiLeaks, has filed to run for Senate in Maryland.



Manning declared in Federal Election Commission filings, dated Jan. 5, her statement of candidacy to run as a Democrat in the 2018 election.



The filing, with the committee name written as "Chelsea Manning for U.S. Senate," was hand-delivered on Jan. 11.

The news of the filing was first reported by the Washington Post. In a Sunday morning tweet, Manning confirmed her candidacy and linked to a campaign ad on YouTube.