Oprah Winfrey explains why she’s not running for president

Published July 3, 2018 10:33pm ET



Former talk show host and motivational speaker Oprah Winfrey has finally explained why she is refusing to run for president, telling Vogue that doing so “would kill me.”

After a presidential-sounding speech she gave at the 2018 Golden Globes, Winfrey fielded many a call to run in the 2020 election, challenging sitting president Donald Trump.

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