KEILAR: The 2020 Democratic field is growing more crowded by the day. Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper just announced he is running for president. He says he made the decision to run because the nation is facing a crisis that threatens, quote, everything we stand for.</s>JOHN HICKENLOOPER (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: This is a crisis of division, and I think it's probably the worst period of division that we've had in this country since the Civil War. And ultimately I'm running for president because I believe that not only can I beat Donald Trump, but that I am the person that can bring people together on the other side and actually get stuff done.</s>KEILAR: CNN's political director David Chalian is with me now. So the list is huge, right? We're now at 10 Democratic officially in the race and there's still a couple more with exploratory committees.</s>DAVID CHALIAN, CNN POLITICAL DIRECTOR: And I think we're still waiting on 14 others or 13 others to actually tell us their intentions. There are many more still out there. Some big names, too, like Joe Biden or Beto O'Rourke, Michael Bloomberg. We're still awaiting some big names to give us their decision. But this is now the second governor to get in the race, Brianna, and he's trying to plot a centrist path here. A little bit more central path. Which the big question that will hang over the Hickenlooper candidacy is, is that what the Democratic primary electorate is looking for right now? You saw just in what you just played, he's trying to sell himself as somebody who not only can bring the country together in a time he feels that that has to happen, but also because of his eight years as mayor of Denver, as governor of Colorado another eight years, that he has the executive kind of leadership experience not in Washington to deliver on the promises that he says the Washington leaders have failed. So not only is he running against Trump, but he's also just running against Washington as outside this swampy mess.
Hickenlooper Announces Run for 2020.