Trump Will Eventually Disappear - Al Franken

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43. I agree that Gillibrand, Harris and Warren saw him as a threat to their presidential ambitions

The fact that he had none, and said so, apparently didn't convince them in the slightest. To me, that says more about them than it does about Al. I don't feel he was under any obligation to go out of his way to try and convince them. He was always pretty direct about his positions on just about anything, and felt no urge to act coy or sneaky. I think a few of his fellow Senators may have been projecting their own mindsets onto him, which indicates laziness on their part. It never took anyone who bothered to get to know Al long to figure out that he was always rather direct about things. It's why he always demolished Republicans in the Senate--he never provided them with any insincerities to attack. It's not a mindset they were used to dealing with, but that's hardly his fault.

As to whether he might have been convinced to run if the "right" people had urged him to--now THAT is conjecture, because they never did.