Oprah 2020 Is No Joke - This Really Could Work - By Toure'
The Democratic Party needs a leader like Oprah Winfrey to reinvigorate its most dedicated voter base: black women.
TOURÉ
01.08.18 8:12 AM ET
There was something in the grace and power of Oprah Winfrey’s words as she addressed the Golden Globes and much of the nation. Something in the grand gravitas of Oprah that made Twitter start lighting up before she was even done speaking—lots of people tweeting about Oprah 2020. It was like they were trying to coax a presidential bid into existence by retweet.
As Oprah’s speech ended with her rousing call—“A new day is on the horizon! And when that new day finally dawns it will be because a lot of magnificent women…!”—it sounded and it felt like a political rally. A rally for love and empowerment and inclusion. And as she ended the way a great political speaker does, that way of talking over the cheers to create a big finish, that’s when you could feel the idea rising in a thousand minds and see it bubbling up on Twitter—Oprah for president!
We’ve shared this idea before as a country, about Oprah running for president, and she’s said she’s not interested, she said it again last night after the Globes, but that’s what people say until the day they throw their hat in the ring.
I don’t think we’ve seen Oprah make the sorts of small gestures that signal serious political interest, like a well-timed trip to Iowa, but she’s a figure of such immense size in American life that if she were to decide she wanted to be president she could become a very serious candidate—staffed up, war chest full—very quickly. People are interested in her as a leader—she polls well and even beats Trump in head-to-head matchups.
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