Is Oprah Winfrey teasing us?
On Thursday night, the “60 Minutes” contributor retweeted a column from the New York Post calling her “the Democrats’ best hope for 2020.”
“Thanks for your VOTE of confidence!” she tweeted to conservative columnist John Podhoretz.
@jpodhoretz Thanks for your VOTE of confidence!Democrats’ best hope for 2020: Oprah | New York Post https://t.co/tvt82v8cMH
— Oprah Winfrey (@Oprah) September 28, 2017
We don’t want to get too excited, because Winfrey has shot down previous suggests that she run for president — or any other government job. “I will never run for public office,” she told the Hollywood Reporter in June.
And despite a March interview with Bloomberg that left room for fans to speculate, Winfrey’s close friend Gayle King said “it was clearly a joke” and “that ain’t never happening.”
In the Bloomberg interview, Winfrey said she never thought about running because she has no political experience — but now that another billionaire TV personality has moved into the White House, anything seems possible.
“I never considered the question even a possibility,” she said. “‘Oh, gee, I don’t have the experience, I don’t know enough.’ And now I’m thinking, ‘Oh.’”
While Winfrey’s tweet definitely doesn’t reveal any future campaign plans, it’s sure to give Oprah 2020 hopefuls more rumor mill fodder.