Kirsten Gillibrand wants to participate in the presidential election of 2020. About it the Senator from new York said yesterday evening, 15 January, on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
TONIGHT: @SenGillibrand stops by @colbertlateshow to announce that she is forming an exploratory committee to run for President of the United States! #LSSC pic.twitter.com/vPUpF1gs8z
— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) January 15, 2019
«I’m going to run for President of the United States, because, as a mother, I will fight for other people’s children as much as for his,» said the Senator, promising that he would seek for Americans for better education in the public schools, affordable healthcare and good training for the middle class.
Here are 7 factsyou need to know about the candidate:
Kirsten Gillibrand was born in 1966 in Albany (new York). In 2009 became a U.S. Senator by-election, taking the place of Hillary Clinton, who received the post of Secretary of state. Since then, Kirsten Gillibrand was re-elected twice.
Before obtaining law degrees at the University of California in Los Angeles, Gillibrand engaged in Oriental studies at Dartmouth College. She studied Mandarin Chinese, trained in China, where she researched the life of Tibetan refugees and even interviewed the Dalai Lama.
Gillibrand grandmother, Polly Noonan, was Secretary of the Legislative Assembly of the state of new York and a close friend of the former mayor of Albany, Erastus Corning. The mother of the Senator, Polly, Rutnik, passed the bar exam in new York just a few days before the birth of her daughter.
In 2014, Time magazine included Kirsten Gillibrand in the list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Kirsten Gillibrand advocates for immigration reform, which would facilitate obtaining US citizenship for «Medicare for all», social security and national health program of family leave.
Her husband, Jonathan Gillibrand, Kirsten met on a blind date. He is originally from the UK, engaged in venture business.
Kirsten Gillibrand was the first in almost 40 years as a Senator from new York, who represented the state in the Committee on agriculture.
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