New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, re-elected just last week, now says she’s considering running for president in 2020 in the wake of “corruption” within the Trump administration.
“I’m obviously very dedicated to serving New Yorkers,” Gillibrand said on ABC’s “The View.”
“But that’s a very important moral question that I’ve been thinking about … what President Trump is putting into this country is so disturbing, so divisive, so dark, that I believe I’ve been called to fight as hard as I possibly can to restore that moral integrity, that moral decency. So, I’m thinking about it.”
Gillibrand, in the Oct. 25 New York Senate debate, denied that she would run for president, saying, “I will serve my full term.”
Her then-opponent Chele Farley responded, “Honestly, I don’t believe that, considering this is the third day she’s been in New York in the entire month,” she said. “When she’s been in five other states, including New Hampshire in this month,” ABC News affiliate WABC reported.
Now she seems to have changed her mind: Gillibrand said a 2020 presidential bid may be another opportunity for her to counter Trump, despite the fact that her new six-year term extends until 2024.