mobanmarketSen. Michael Bennet on Friday said former Gov. John Hickenlooper, his fellow Coloradan and former opponent in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, would make an “excellent senator" should he challenge Republican Sen. Cory Gardner.
“I believe — because he’s been, you know, an excellent mayor, an excellent governor — I don’t have any doubt that, if he decided to run, he’d be an excellent senator,” Bennet told CNN.
Hickenlooper dropped out of the expansive field of Democrats vying to compete against President Donald Trump in next year’s presidential election on Thursday. He has been courted for months by party leaders to instead take on Gardner, a GOP senator considered among the most vulnerable in 2020.
In a video statement announcing his departure from the presidential race, Hickenlooper said he has “heard from so many Coloradans” who want him to run for Senate. “They remind me how much is at stake for our country and our state. I intend to give that some serious thought,” he said.
Hickenlooper, a former Denver mayor who served two terms as governor, has previously expressed reluctance to embark on such a campaign, asserting he is “not cut out to be a senator.”
Hickenlooper’s path to Capitol Hill is far from assured, and it is unclear whether the former governor could clear the roughly dozen-strong pack of Colorado Democrats seeking to unseat Gardner.
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