Suppose you were a US senator with a 24% approval rating in your home state, a rating so low that you have already announced that you will not run for re-election. Then suppose that you appear on a cable news network and get asked if you will run for president in 2020. What is your answer?
If you're Arizona senator Jeff Flake, you tell the interviewer that you haven't "ruled that out". Seriously, that was Flake's reply. Here's a senator who has been rejected by the voters of his own state (according to every poll). That means that the people who really know Flake have decided that they don't like what they see. In fact, prior to Flake's announcement that he would not run again, a majority of voters in his own Republican party in Arizona said that Flake did not deserve to be re-elected. Nevertheless, this guy is so full of himself that he's pondering a run for president.
Maybe we should clue Flake in about that run for president in 2020. Don't waste your time or ours. If you want to be the Lindsay Graham of the 2020 cycle, it's up to you. One would think, however, that getting forced from the senate would be embarrassment enough for a lifetime.
If you're Arizona senator Jeff Flake, you tell the interviewer that you haven't "ruled that out". Seriously, that was Flake's reply. Here's a senator who has been rejected by the voters of his own state (according to every poll). That means that the people who really know Flake have decided that they don't like what they see. In fact, prior to Flake's announcement that he would not run again, a majority of voters in his own Republican party in Arizona said that Flake did not deserve to be re-elected. Nevertheless, this guy is so full of himself that he's pondering a run for president.
Maybe we should clue Flake in about that run for president in 2020. Don't waste your time or ours. If you want to be the Lindsay Graham of the 2020 cycle, it's up to you. One would think, however, that getting forced from the senate would be embarrassment enough for a lifetime.
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