The entertainment entrepreneur’s electrifying speech at the Golden Globes produced an outpouring of reaction urging the celebrity to run in 2020Oprah Winfrey for president? But on another level, Winfrey, 63, raised in poverty by a single mother, could pitch herself as a consensus builder. When he was contemplating a presidential run in 1999, he said Winfrey would be his first choice as a running mate. “She’s popular, she’s brilliant, she’s a wonderful woman … That would be a pretty good ticket.”Political analysts suggested the talk of a Winfrey run, presumably for the Democratic party, was more than mere hype. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Oprah Winfrey appears alongside Barack and Michelle Obama at a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, in support of Obama’s presidential run.

Source: The Guardian January 08, 2018 19:34 UTC