Oprah For President – Fusion Nepal

Oprah may be running for president in 2020 — and, uh, even the Trumps are getting on board.

Last night, Ivanka Trump retweeted Oprah’s now-famous Golden Globes speech with enthusiasm and included the anti-sexual harassment #TimesUp hashtag (with no mention, of course, of her father’s accusers). Then on Tuesday, Trump expressed his own qualified enthusiasm for a potential Oprah run.

“Yeah, I’ll beat Oprah,” Trump told a room full of reporters. “Oprah would be a lot of fun. I know her very well. You know I did one of her last shows, she had Donald Trump as before politics, her last week and she had Donald Trump and my family. I like Oprah. I don’t think she’s going to run.” Read more…

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Talk of Oprah running for president in 2020 is ratcheting up, thanks to her powerful speech at the Golden Globes. Of course, that means the inevitable backlash is here too.

But if the media mogul has the fire in the belly required to run for president, she should run — and nothing anyone writes should dissuade her.

If she is truly prepared for the thankless slog of the Democratic primary process — endless corn dogs at Iowa cookouts, walking from house to house through the freezing slush of New Hampshire in January, being grilled with gotcha questions on foreign policy by newspaper boards and talk radio hosts coast to coast — then she’s ready. Read more…

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