“I’m not going to be coy, I’m thinking about running for president and praying about it,” Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal said at a lunch with conservative bloggers today. He added he considers it a mistake for any Republican to spend a lot of time focusing on the 2016 presidential election while there are still midterm elections to be won. Jindal mentioned he had been campaigning for Florida governor Rick Scott, Arkansas Senate candidate Tom Cotton, and North Carolina Senate candidate Thom Tillis.
“We’re big fans of SEC football back home, and everyone likes to ask the coach, ‘Are you going to win the championship this year?’ The answer is always, ‘First, we’ve got to win the game right in front of us right now.’”
He said he doubted he would make any decision until “after the holidays” at the end of the year.
Jindal said that Americans are “hungry for big change, looking for a hostile takeover of D.C..”
“I think we will win [the Senate] in 2014,” Jindal said. “But if we don’t do anything with it, there will be a backlash. We can’t just be the party of ‘no.’”
Jindal unveiled a series of proposals for a national energy policy today. This morning our Eliana Johnson looked at Jindal’s ideas-focused positioning for 2016.