Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke will head to New York next month for a live interview with Oprah Winfrey as he continues to mull a 2020 presidential run.
O’Rourke will be part of “Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations from Times Square” on Feb. 5. He’ll speak to Winfrey one-on-one as part of an event featuring others, including actors Bradley Cooper and Michael B. Jordan.
O’Rourke, 46, rose to national Democratic prominence while nearly unseating Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in deep red-Texas last November.
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Despite other top Democrats taking steps to likely join the 2020 presidential race, O’Rourke’s camp suggests he won’t make up his mind for at least a few more weeks.
Winfrey herself has been the subject of 2020 chatter, but has said she doesn’t plan to run.
For the first time in 17 years, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was not voted as the woman Americans most admire, according to a Gallup poll released Thursday.
Former first lady Michelle Obama was named the woman Americans admire most in the world with 15 percent of those surveyed choosing her. Oprah Winfrey came in second place, amassing only 5 percent of the vote, with Clinton coming in tied at third with Melania Trump at 4 percent.
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When looking at the breakdown for Democrats who were surveyed, Clinton finished tied with Winfrey and behind Obama. Conversely, the former presidential candidate received less than 0.5 percent of the vote from Republicans.
Former President Barack Obama won the award as the man most admired by Americans for the eleventh consecutive year. President Donald Trump came in second place this year, finishing with 13 percent compared to 19 percent for his predecessor.
The last time Hillary Clinton was not voted “most admired” was in 2001, when then-first lady Laura Bush won the honor. However, Clinton also won four consecutive years prior to Bush’s victory. So Clinton has won the award for 20 of the last 21 years.
Gallup conducted 1,025 phone interviews with people 18 years or older from Dec. 3-12. There’s a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
President Winfrey? Oprah says in the age of Trump that she could run for the White House despite being unqualified for the job
Oprah said she had never thought about possibly being president until Donald Trump won the job
She believed she was unqualified and didn’t have enough raw knowledge
‘And now I’m thinking, “Oh! Oh!” she said’
Oprah would be the first woman president if she were to leverage her near-universal name ID to match Trump’s political lightning moment
She already built a successful broadcasting career on unlikely triumphs, including a ratings war that saw her beat legendary interviewer Phil Donahue
The improbable political rise of Donald Trump has led Oprah Winfrey to think about whether or not she could become the second TV entertainer to work in the Oval Office.
Oprah told Bloomberg interviewer David Rubenstein that before Trump won the November election, she thought she was unqualified to be president.
But not anymore.
‘I actually never thought that that was – I never considered the question, even a possibility,’ she said.
But when reality-show icon Trump beat longtime politician Hillary Clinton, she said, ‘I just thought, “Oh! Oh!”‘
‘I thought, “Oh, gee, I don’t have experience. I don’t know enough. I don’t.”
‘And now I’m thinking, “Oh! Oh!”‘
Oprah would be the first woman president if she were to leverage her near-universal name ID and nationwide support to match Trump’s political lightning moment.
She told Rubenstein, a famed philanthropist who interviews business leaders on his show, that she built her career on one unlikely triumph after another.
When she was hired to host ‘A. M. Chicago’ in 1984, she said, most of her friends predicted she would fail because her show competed with legendary interviewer Phil Donahue.
‘It didn’t matter to me, because I did not think that he was beatable,’ she recalled.
But ultimately, ‘I beat him. I did. I wasn’t trying to.’
If Oprah should run for president and win, she would gain one of the only pulic platforms bigger than the one she already enjoys.
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Her lifestyle brand and ‘OWN’ cable TV network followed the 25-year run of ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ and her starring role in the film ‘The Color Purple.’
Countless millions saw her on TV internationally.
Despite the ratings, she said the founding of a girls’ school in South Africa remains her proudest achievement.
But one famous friend warned her that her legacy could be about something unexpected.
‘I remember when I started the school,’ she recalled, ‘I said to my beloved friend Maya Angelou, I said: “Maya, I’m so, I’m just so proud that I was going to be able to create this school.” I said, “This is going to be my greatest legacy.”‘
‘And Maya said to me, “You have no idea. You have no idea what your legacy will be … because your legacy is every life you’ve touched”.’
Yea Bitch I Won!
