Chelsea Manning, the transgender U.S. Army soldier who served seven years in military prison for leaking classified data, is seeking the Democratic Party's nomination for the U.S. Senate seat in Maryland, according to Federal election filings seen on Saturday. Democratic Senator Ben Cardin was elected in 2006 to that seat and is expected to run for re-election this year. Scroll down for videoChelsea Manning is seeking the Democratic Party's nomination for the U.S. Senate seat from Maryland. Manning, 30, continued to cry as she then added: 'That's all I asked for was chance, that's it. Chang then asked Manning to respond to her detractors, who believed that by leaking these documents Manning was potentially giving top-secret information to enemies of the United States.

Source: Daily Mail January 13, 2018 19:58 UTC