May 31, 2015 - Former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley,52, announced yesterday he was running for president in a speech at Federal Hill Park in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.

Speaking before a crowd of nearly a thousand supporters, O'Malley said "today the American dream seems for so many us  to be hanging by a thread. This is not the American dream. It does not have to be this way. This generation of Americans still has time to be great. We must save our country now. And we will do that by rebuilding the American dream."

O'Malley joins fellows Democrats former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders in the race for their parties presidential nomination.

It will be an uphill race for O'Malley as the most recent polling shows Clinton with 57%, Sanders 15% and Vice President Biden with 9%. Currently O'Malley is polling at about 1%.