Oprah Winfrey gave the rumor mill a crank Thursday night after tweeting a shoutout to a columnist who wrote that she would be "Democrats' best hope" against President Donald Trump in 2020.
John Podhoretz of the New York Post on Wednesday wrote a column saying that Oprah could architect a message that "spoke to the right people in the right states to take the fight to Trump's underbelly."
"If any figure in the United States bears watching over the next couple of years as our political culture continues the radical transformation that led to the election of Donald Trump, it's Oprah," Podhoretz wrote.
"I believe she's uniquely positioned, should she wish to commit herself, to seek the Democratic nomination for president and challenge Trump in 2020."
Winfrey earlier this year hinted during an interview that she might give consideration to a run for the White House after Trump pulled it off.
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