Former Secretary of State John Kerry has not ruled out running for president again in 2020, according to a new interview.
The 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, who lost to George W. Bush, is suggesting he could be up for potentially running against President Trump.
“I haven’t been thinking about it or talking about it,” Kerry told the New York Times before adding, “I haven’t ruled anything in or anything out.”
In December, Kerry also said he had thought “for a minute or two” about jumping into the action.
Kerry can mull over the idea from his new office at Yale University’s Kerry Institute, where he is will teach a course and lead discussions that have bene dubbed “Kerry Conversations.” Kerry’s official title is distinguished fellow for global affairs.
The Yale professor will teach within Yale’s Institute for Global Affairs. Kerry is no stranger to Yale, having graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1966.
“Secretary Kerry is going to teach school,” Jim Levinsohn, director of the institute, told the New York Times. “Students are going to show up, and that’s going to be John Kerry in the classroom.”
Yale President Peter Salovey said Kerry’s position is “not a political platform – it’s a teaching platform.”
The initiative also mandates the appointment of Kerry Fellows, undergraduate and graduate students who will help him with research.
Kerry is also working on a memoir.
Kerry admitted in an interview published Sunday that he gave some consideration to running on the Democratic ticket for president in 2016.
