Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) gave the strongest indication yet that she’s a possible Democratic contender for president in 2020 when she told Stephen Colbert on “The Late Show” Thursday that she was giving the idea a “long, hard thought of consideration.”
“I’ve seen the hatred and the division that President Trump has put out into our country, and it has called me to fight as hard as I possibly can to restore the moral compass of this country,” she said.
Watch the interview below:
What a snake. She should be a Republican.
She might want to think long and hard about how many Dem voters will not vote for her in a primary due to what she did to Al Franken. I am guessing there are many of us.
She better be holding a letter of endorsement from Al Franken. She is not going anywhere without it.
While lawyers do many things, she will need to answer as to how much she made as a lawyer working on Philip Morris cases. She contends that she was simply following orders, an old defense used by many. While Al Franken may have made silly jokes in his past, her work defending Philip Morris may have led to the ability of the tobacco industry to continue to hoodwink smokers on the actual harm of those tobacco products.
Discussion of her tobacco firm legal work: