Will think on a presidential run in 2016: Bobby Jindal
19 Sept 2014 4:48 AM IST
Louisiana’s Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal says he’s thinking and praying about running for president in 2016, and will make his decision after the November elections. His name barely registered a blip in a new CNN/ORC poll of GOP presidential possibles in New Hampshire, but that won’t be a factor in his decision, he says.
‘If I were to decide to run for 2016, it would have nothing to do with polls or fundraising,’ he told reporters at a Monitor breakfast Tuesday. Rather, his decisionmaking process would be much like the ones he used in deciding to run in other races – for Louisiana governor in 2003 (he lost), for the US House in 2004 (he won), and again for the governorship in 2007 (he won and was overwhelmingly reelected in 2011).
The determining questions, he said, are, ‘Do I think I can make a difference, do I think I have something unique to offer?’
The youngest governor at the time in the United States when he was elected, the Indian-American is big on policy papers. At his last breakfast with the Monitor, in April, the former Rhodes scholar with a background in health care laid out his plan to replace the Affordable Care Act.
‘If I were to decide to run for 2016, it would have nothing to do with polls or fundraising,’ he told reporters at a Monitor breakfast Tuesday. Rather, his decisionmaking process would be much like the ones he used in deciding to run in other races – for Louisiana governor in 2003 (he lost), for the US House in 2004 (he won), and again for the governorship in 2007 (he won and was overwhelmingly reelected in 2011).
The determining questions, he said, are, ‘Do I think I can make a difference, do I think I have something unique to offer?’
The youngest governor at the time in the United States when he was elected, the Indian-American is big on policy papers. At his last breakfast with the Monitor, in April, the former Rhodes scholar with a background in health care laid out his plan to replace the Affordable Care Act.
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