A new poll released Wednesday showed former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice leading almost two dozen names in the race for Sen. Barbara Boxer’s (D-CA) Senate seat, including California Attorney General Kamala Harris (D).
But Rice’s chief of staff said that the former secretary of State still isn’t interested in jumping into the race and is happing teaching at Stanford University.
Of the 18 potential candidates listed, the poll found that 49 percent said they would support Rice if she decided to run for Senate followed by Harris, who has announced her candidacy, with 46 percent of those polled.
Rice has not indicated plans to run for Senate and the poll doesn’t seem to have changed that.
“The poll doesn’t change her position about running for Senate,” Rice’s chief of staff, Georgia Godfrey, told TPM in an email. “She plans to stay at Stanford.”
Since Harris announced her candidacy, she’s regularly announced high-profile Democratic endorsements while other top potential tier candidates like billionaire and environmentalist billionaire Tom Steyer have decided not to run for Senate. Most polling has also shown Harris leading potential contenders.
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) has also shown interest in running for Senate but as of yet hasn’t made a final decision.
Most of the major names floated for running for Boxer’s seat have been Democrats with only a few Republicans even mentioned as serious contenders. But Rice hasn’t used that opening to even entertain the possibility of running for Senate. Godfrey previously told The Hill newspaper that Rice was not interested in running for Senate.
“It’s not even a consideration,” Godfrey said of Rice’s thinking to The Hill. “She’s happy here at Stanford!”
Yeah, like who gives a crap and from the lack of comments, no one.
She gets that 49% because no one remembers her actual policy positions. If she runs it will all come out - plus the shoe shopping, Bush cronyism, and all the rest of her Bush era baggage. She will sink like a stone and look like an idiot. I find it difficult to believe that she could be elected in a statewide race in CA. She probably realizes that as well and is staying safely at Stanford trying to forget the Bush years like all of the rest of us.
The mushroom cloud of her grandeur does loom though…
Agreed, except for the idiot part. She’s no Carly Fiorina.
As a Californian who will support Kamala Harris, I’m interested in this 15-minute spotlight Condi’s in. So far she’s a recognizable name only to Rs who have almost no presence in California state government and they’re desperate, but I think she’s happily (and no doubt profitably) ensconced in an education scam for Jebbie.