Jim Webb has joined the list of potential long shot challengers to Hillary Clinton‘s run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.
A Vietnam veteran, former Navy secretary and Virginia senator from 2007 to 2013, Webb said in May that he wouldn’t rule out a run for the White House.
Now he is making some small steps toward that prospect, according to the New York Times.
Webb visited Iowa last month, is mulling a trip to to New Hampshire and will visit Washington, D.C.’s National Press Club on Sept. 23 for a major speech. If he ran, Webb would likely rely on opposition to foreign intervention and a push to get tough on Wall Street, two areas where he differs from Clinton.
Still, he’d have a tough road ahead. Clinton currently holds a 54-point lead in the RealClearPolitics average of polls of the Democratic presidential primary.
