Former Secretary of State John Kerry hasn’t ruled out running for president in 2020 against President Trump.
Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, revealed Wednesday during an event at Harvard’s Institute of Politics that he’s pondering another run.
“I’ve said I’m not going to eliminate, I’m not taking anything off the table,” Kerry said. “But I’m not sitting around — I haven’t been running around to the most obvious states, laying any groundwork or doing anything. Am I going to think about it? Yeah, I’m going to think about it, I’ve said that point-blank.”
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While Kerry acknowledged he would be open to supporting another Democratic candidate and noted that former Vice President Joe Biden would be qualified, he said that a potential candidate he would be willing to back isn’t immediately evident.
“I’m perfectly ready to embrace somebody that I think can win, or who wants to address all the issues that I just talked about and understands them,” said Kerry. “But I’m going to be very candid here, and some people who are thinking about it aren’t going to love me for it, but I’m not — I don’t see the person yet that I’m prepared to say that about.”
Trump has joked that he “should only be so lucky” to run against Kerry, who was a leader in the development of the 2015 Iran deal that put restraints on Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for relief from crippling sanctions.
“I see that John Kerry, the father of the now terminated Iran deal, is thinking of running for President. I should only be so lucky — although the field that is currently assembling looks really good — FOR ME!” Trump tweeted in September.
Kerry previously guessed that Trump would last “a year, or two years” in office.
Other Democrats viewed as potential 2020 candidates include Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, among others.