Michele Bachmann: Is She Running for President in 2012? (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on March 25, 2011
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann hinting she may run for president in 2012
Nothing official yet on whether she’s going to make a run for the Oval Office, but here’s what Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann said yesterday about the 2012 elections:
“I’m in for 2012 in that I want to be a part of the conversation in making sure that President Obama only serves one term, not two, because I want to make sure that we get someone who’s going to be making the country work again. That’s what I’m in for,” Bachmann said.
“But I haven’t made a decision yet to announce, obviously, if I’m a candidate or not, but I’m in for the conversation.”
From Los Angeles Times, Michele Bachmann moves closer to presidential bid:
In another sign that she is moving closer to a 2012 presidential run, Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann did not deny a report Thursday that she would form a presidential exploratory committee by late spring.
The conservative Minnesotan was on a campaign-style swing through neighboring Iowa, the first caucus state, when CNN reported that she would file papers to form a committee in early June.
In a brief interview before meeting privately with lawmakers at the state Capitol in Des Moines, she repeated her standard line about a 2012 race — that she would decide “by summer” — but pointedly declined to shoot down the CNN report.
“I’m not saying it’s false,” Bachmann said, adding, “It could be before then.”
She said there was “a natural timeline” for a presidential run, and if she decided to go ahead, she would do so in time to contest a summer straw vote in Ames, Iowa.
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