Vilsack Won’t Say If He’ll Run for Senate

Tom Vilsack (D) “downplayed speculation that he is considering whether to challenge Joni Ernst for her U.S. Senate seat in 2020,” the Des Moines Register reports.

Said Vilsack: “Right now, the focus needs to be, for me, on making sure the party is prepared to do its job, relative to the caucuses, and to make sure that we have the kind of debate within the Democratic Party that will help us have a viable candidate in 2020 for president.”

When asked if he was keeping the door open, he said: “The door’s not open, closed, shut — I don’t even know where the door is.”