President Eric Holder? Former Attorney General Is Mulling 2020 Run

Would you vote for Eric Holder?

onJune 22, 2017 at 2:01 PMJune 22, 2017 at 1:33 PM

Eric Holder (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Up to now, I have been more behind-the-scenes. But that’s about to change. I have a certain status as the former attorney general. A certain familiarity as the first African-American attorney general. There’s a justified perception that I’m close to President Obama. So I want to use whatever skills I have, whatever notoriety I have, to be effective in opposing things that are, at the end of the day, just bad for the country.

Now is the time to be more visible. Now is the time to be heard.

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— Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who is now working as a partner at Covington & Burling, speaking about his future plans in an interview with Yahoo News. Three anonymous sources claimed that Holder was considering running for president as the Democratic contender in 2020.

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