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Could Oprah Make a 2020 Run? In Trump Era, Dems Hail Idea

This image released by NBC shows Oprah Winfrey accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday,

Jan. 7, 2018. (Paul Drinkwater/NBC via AP)

By THOMAS BEAUMONT mance, the notion of a popular media figure DeMille lifetime achievement award on Sunday
STEVE PEOPLES as a presidential candidate is not as strange touched on her humble upbringing and child-
Associated Press as it once seemed, given the New York real es- hood wonder in civil rights heroes.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Oprah Winfrey’s im- tate mogul and reality TV star now in the White But it was her exhortation of the legions of wom-
passioned call for “a brighter morning even in House. en who have called out sexual harassers — and
our darkest nights” at the Golden Globes has “Look, it’s ridiculous — and I get that. But, at the her dream of a day “when nobody has to say
Democratic Party activists buzzing about the same time, politics is ridiculous right now,” said ‘me too’ again” — that got some political op-
media superstar and the 2020 presidential race Iowa Democratic operative Brad Anderson, a eratives, in early voting states such as Iowa and
— even if it’s only a fantasy. former statewide candidate who also ran Presi- New Hampshire, thinking Winfrey might be just
Even so, for Democrats in early voting states, dent Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election cam- what the Democrats need.
and perhaps for a public that largely disap- paign in Iowa.
proves of President Donald Trump’s job perfor- Winfrey’s speech as she accepted the Cecil B. Continued on Page 3