Jerry Brown is thinking of running for president — if he can “go back in the time machine.” The Democratic California governor, who has the distinction of being both the youngest and oldest person to serve in the position, said on Meet the Press that he would probably make a White House run if he could go back to his younger days.
“If you were 10 years younger, would you be running this year?” host Chuck Todd asked.
“Yes, I would,” Brown, 76, responded.
“You would be running for president?” Todd repeated.
“I can’t say — I’ve run three times, so if I could go back in the time machine and be 66, I might jump back in,” Brown said. “But that’s a counterfactual, so you don’t need to speculate on that.”
Brown has left open the possibility of running for the Democratic presidential nominee against presumptive favorite Hillary Clinton, especially as some Democratic voters look for an alternative to her amid lingering concerns. (For what it’s worth, Clinton will be 69 on Election Day in November 2016.)
If he were to run again, Brown would reboot a presidential-campaign apparatus four decades in the making: He ran for the Democratic nomination in 1976, 1980, and 1992, losing in the primary each time.
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