“Where can you help people the most and change people’s lives,' McAuliffe said Wednesday night. 'As you know, it happens at the state level.'
The 62-year-old former governor of Virginia — a close Bill and Hillary Clinton ally, a master high-dollar fundraiser, and a gregarious, always-hyperactive, always-smiling presence on the campaign trail — will not be bringing his"happy tour" to the 2020 race for president, he announced on Wednesday night in an interview with CNN.
“I thought long and hard,” said Mcauliffe, wearing a University of Virginia polo shirt. “I’ve been reaching out to folks all over the country. Dying to run for president. Think I could really make a difference. Think I could beat Bush — I mean, Trump — like a rented mule. But we’ve got issues in Virginia and I’m concerned about Virginia. Since February, we’ve had a lot of problems there,” he said.
“Where can you help people the most and change people’s lives," he soon after asked."As you know, it happens at the state level. And I don’t want anyone in Virginia to think that I’ve abandoned them. I would love to have run for president, I think being a southern governor who had a record amount of jobs, and investment in education, and the most felon right enfranchisement of any governor in American history.
Asked by CNN's Chris Cuomo whether he would run again for governor of Virginia, where governors can serve only one term consecutively but can run again in the future, McAuliffe did not rule out a run. “That’s two years away,” he said, noting he is focused on helping Democrats win back control of the state House and Senate.
McAuliffe, who left the Virginia governor's mansion in 2017, spent the last year hinting at a potential presidential run. He appeared regularly on MSNBC and CNN. He worked the phones for advice and gossip — calling as many as 400 friends, donors, and former elected officials, some multiple times each, according to former aides. And on Twitter, he got into the habit of taunting President Donald Trump.
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