(WWJ) Freshman congresswoman Rashida Tlaib is throwing her hat back in the race for 2020.
The Democrat officially announced her re-election campaign on Facebook today, saying "being the eldest of 14 probably best prepared me to understand that we all need to organize and take care of each other and the way we do that is by showing up for each other in 2020."
She claimed her mere presence in the United States Senate immediately "transformed lives."
"Because I'm talking about bold, radical ideas that fight and combat racism and poverty, pushing back against corporate greed, talking about our broken health care system and immigration system and so much more that impact our daily lives."
Tlaib took over the 13th District last year, which includes parts of Detroit, Dearborn Heights, Inkster, Melvindale, and other communities.
The seat was held by the late John Conyers before he resigned from Congress in 2017.
Tlaib won the 13th District in 2018 with more than 84 percent of the vote.
She's been a lightning rod in her short tenure thus far, drawing criticism and support from both sides of the aisle for saying of President Donald Trump, 'We're going to impeach the motherf****." She also got into a spat with the Detroit police chief James Craig over the facial recognition system in Detroit, claiming in one off-the-cuff moment that all crime analysts should be black because "non-African Americans think African Americans all look the same."
She's been regularly targeted for criticism by Trump and other Republicans.