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NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (Reuters) – Beto O 'Rourke, a former Democratic member of the Texas Congress, whose untimely campaign for the US Senate finally sparked a bid for the presidency of 2020, announced Tuesday (19659002) in a Recorded interview with Oprah Winfrey in New York, O. Rourke, 46, appeared to be leaning towards a White House campaign for 2020 but said he would make his decision after consulting his wife and himself. Three children.
"I thought I was a candidate for the presidency," he said, stirring thunderous applause. "I'm so excited about being able to play that role."
O 'Rourke was the closest in stating his intentions for 2020, during an open media discussion at "Oprah's" Times Square SuperSoul Conversations. "The interview will be broadcast on Winfrey's OWN cable television channel on February 16.
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Oprah Winfrey smiles and gives the correct sign when she hosts the TV show People Are Talking, 1978. (Photo by Afro American Newspapers / Gado / Getty Images )
THE JOHNNY TONIGHT CARSON – Pictured: (gd) talk show host, Oprah Winfrey, during an interview with guest host Joan Rivers on January 27th 1986 – (Photo: Paul Drinkwater / NBC / NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – MARCH 13: Oprah Winfrey attends the candidates' lunch at the 58th Academy Awards on March 13, 1986 at the hotel Beverly Hilton Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage) DAY NIGHT LIVE – Episode 14 – Pictured: Oprah Winfrey in the April 14, 1986 monologue (Photo by Alan Singer / NBC / NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
(Original caption) 9/8/1986-New York, NY: Oprah Winfrey (pictured 8/21), whose talk show hit the socks of Phil Donahue in Chicago and Tom Snyder in New York, will make his national debut this month. this . His interviews are energetic, probing, revealing, earthy and above all fun. UPI eh / Ezio Peteresen
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – NOVEMBER 7: Oprah Winfrey seen on November 7, 1986 at Tramp's in Beverly Hills, California. NEW YORK CITY – OCTOBER 22: Quincy Jones and Oprah Winfrey attend the NAACP Legal Advocacy Fund Benefit Gala on October 22, 1987 at the Waldorf Hotel in New York. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)[19659017HERBEVERLYHILLSCA-13DÉCEMBRE:OprahWinfreyetSteadmanGrahamassistentau47èmegaladesGoldenAppleAwardsle13décembre1987àl'hôtelBeverlyWilshireàBeverlyHillsenCalifornie(PhotoparRonGalellaLtd/WireImage)
Stedman Graham and Oprah Winfrey (Photo Jim Smeal / WireImage)
Oprah Winfrey to & # 39, New York Hilton hotel in New York, New York State (photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN – Episode 1135 – Pictured here: (lr) l & # 39; Oprah Winfrey talk show host during an interview with host David Letterman on May 2, 1989 – (Photo by: Paul Natkin / NBC / NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
] Stedman Graham and Oprah Winfrey at the 15th Annual Bride of Rape Treatment Center – September 24, 1989 at Sandra Moss in Holmby Hills, California, USA. (Photo by Jim Smeal / WireImage)
THE CITY OF YORK – JUNE 27: Oprah Winfrey attends the 18th edition of the Daytime Emmy Awards on June 27, 1991 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 14: Singer Aretha Franklin and Talk Show host Oprah Winfrey behind the scenes at Radio City Music Hall on September 14, 1991. (Photo of Waring Abbott / Getty Images)
Oprah Winfrey, television personality. (Photo by Time Life Pictures / DMI / The LIFE / Getty Images Collection)
398059 20: Talk show host Oprah Winfrey visits the annual Kennedy Center Honors Gala on December 28, 2001 Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong / Getty Images)
398107 04: ITALY EXIT Oprah Winfrey, host of a TV show, leaves a downtown hotel for Chicago after buying clothes and works of art. art in New York.
NEW YORK CITY, NY – NOVEMBER 13: Oprah Winfrey and Elie Wiesel attend the annual Lions Libraries Gala at the New York Public Library at the New York Public Library on November 13, 2006 in New York City. (Photo by Matt Carasella / Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
Halle Berry, Angela Bassett and Oprah Winfrey at the Lionsgate Pre-Oscar Party for the & # 39; Monster & # 39; s Ball & # 39; s at the Mirabelle restaurant in West Hollywood, California, USA. (Photo by J. Vespa / WireImage)
Oprah Winfrey at the 54th Primetime Emmy Awards – Newsroom of The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by Gregg DeGuire / WireImage)
Oprah Winfrey at the Marriot Marquis Hotel in New York (Photo by Jim Spellman / WireImage)
THE CITY OF YORK – NOVEMBER 12: Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King attend at the 46th Annual Urban League Awards ceremony on November 12, 2002 at Pier 60, Chelsea Piers, New York. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
Oprah Winfrey, winner of Favorite Talk Show (Photo by SGranitz / WireImage)
Presidents of Morehouse, Walter Massey and Oprah Winfrey (Photo by Moses Robinson / WireImage)
HOLLYWOOD, CA – FEBRUARY 29: TV Personality Oprah Winfrey attends the 76th Academy Awards at Kodak Theater on February 29, 2004 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Carlo Allegri / Getty Images)
NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 30: TV personality Oprah Winfrey makes an appearance at the Waldorf Astoria, where she is awarded with the International Humanitarian Action Award. September 30, 2004 in New York. (Photo by Peter Kramer / Getty Images)
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – OCTOBER 23: Oprah Winfrey expresses herself on the stage of the 16th Carousel of Hope presented by Mercedes-Benz for the benefit of the Barbara Davis Center for the child's diabetes, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in October. January 23, 2004 in Beverly Hills California. (Photo by Frank Micelotta / Getty Images)
Beyonce, Halle Berry and Oprah Winfrey at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California (Photo by Steve Granitz / WireImage)
Oprah Winfrey at the 36th NAACP Image Awards – Show at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by Jesse Grant / WireImage)
Oprah Winfrey (Photo by Gregory Pace / FilmMagic)
Oprah Winfrey at the 28th Annual Kennedy Center Honors Ceremony – Arrivals at the Kennedy Center for Perfoming Arts in Washington DC, -, United States. (Photo by Jeff Snyder / FilmMagic)
ATLANTA – FEBRUARY 6: Oprah Winfrey, television personality, looks at Correta Scott King's body at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church during a public viewing on February 6, 2006 in Atlanta , in Georgia. King's coffin will rest in the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where her husband, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. preached in the 1960s and where the matriarch of civil rights remained a member until his death. King died on January 31 in Mexico City in a fresh medicine clinic, where doctors said she was fighting advanced cancer of the ovary. (Photo by Jason Reed-Pool / Getty Images)
HOUSTON – FEBRUARY 18: Singer Mary J. Blige and television personality Oprah Winfrey are seen on the court before the NBA All-Star Saturday night festivities 2006 at the All-Star 18 weekend 2006 at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. NOTE TO THE USER: The user acknowledges and expressly agrees that, by downloading and / or using this photo, the user consents to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Getty Images)
NEW YORK – APRIL 19: Oprah Winfrey, television personality, attends the opening night of "Three Days of Rain" at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater on April 19, 2006 in New York City . (Photo by Paul Hawthorne / Getty Images)
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – AUGUST 10: Oprah Winfrey hugs one of the girls she interviewed for her school for underprivileged girls on Aug. 10 2006 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Oprah has invested more than $ 40 million to build a first class high school for a few hundred lucky girls from all over South Africa. She fulfilled her dream and promised President Nelson Mandela to build the school and improve the lives of these girls. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson / Getty Images)
LUIS GUERRA / 2006 Photo of RAMEY New York, September 24, 2006 OPRAH WINFREY leaving his hotel in downtown Manhattan. PGlg (Photo by LUIS GUERRA / 2006-2006 Phil Ramey / RameyPix / Corbis via Getty Images)
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Mary J Blige and Oprah Winfrey during 2007 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted by Graydon Carter – Arrivals at Mortons in West Hollywood, California, USA. (Photo by George Pimentel / WireImage)
HOLLYWOOD – DECEMBER 11: Oprah Winfrey and Jennifer Hudson at the premiere of the movie "The Great Debaters" at the Arclight Theater on December 11, 2007 in Hollywood California. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic)
Actor-vocalists BeBe Winans, Chaka Khan, producer Oprah Winfrey and singer-actress LaKisha Jones pose at the celebration for new cast members of The Color Purple Chaka Khan , BeBe Winans and LaKisha Jones at Broadway Theater on January 9, 2008 in New York. (Photo by Bruce Glikas / FilmMagic)
LOS ANGELES, CA – FEBRUARY 03: Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) (L) is joined by California's first lady Maria Shriver (C) and television host Oprah Winfrey (right) at a campaign rally for Obama in the Pauley Pavilion at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) on February 3, 2007 in Los Angeles, in California. Presidential candidates and their supporters are competing for votes in the last two days before the primaries next Tuesday, February 5th. (Photo by David McNew / Getty Images)
Glenn Close and Oprah Winfrey arrive at the Hollywood Reporter's Annual Women In Entertainment Lunch at the Beverly Hills Hotel on December 5, 2008 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz / WireImage)
HOLLYWOOD – MARCH 07: Oprah Winfrey performs on stage at the 82nd Academy Awards at Kodak Theater on March 7, 2010 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter / Getty Images)
CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 11: Pictures of a Sunday arts profile on Oprah Winfrey, winner of the Kennedy Center Honor Award 2010 in Chicago, in the United States. Illinois, November 11, 2010 (Photo by Marvin Joseph / The Washington Post via Getty Images
WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 04: Oprah Winfrey, one of the recipients of the 2010 Kennedy Center, poses for the class photo with his honored colleagues following the official dinner of artists at the US State Department in Washington, DC on December 4, 2010. (Photo by Ron Sachs-Pool / Getty Images)
SYDNEY , AUSTRALIA – DECEMBER 14: Oprah Winfrey's address to audience members at the second recording of the show "Oprah Winfrey Show" at the Sydney Opera House on December 14, 2010 in Sydney , Australia: 12,000 viewers were selected from 350,000 applicants to participate in two recordings from the movie "The Oprah Winfrey Show" at the Sydney Opera House. Oprah went down to Australia last week with 302 great fans from the United States, Canada and Jamaica will perform four shows for the 25th and final season of the program. the programs will air in the United States and Australia in January 2011. (Photo by Don Arnold / WireImage)
(EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) Annabella Sciorra and Oprah Winfrey pose behind the scenes in the hit play "The Motherf ** ker with The Hat "Broadway at the Schoenfeld Theater on April 30, 2011 in New York. *** Exclusive *** (Photo by Bruce Glikas / FilmMagic)
CHICAGO, IL – MAY 17: Aretha Franklin and Oprah Winfrey attend Surprise Oprah! A farewell show at the United Center on May 17, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Timothy Hiatt / FilmMagic)
NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 24: Ricky Lauren, Ralph Lauren and Oprah Winfrey attend an evening with Ralph Lauren hosted by Oprah Winfrey and presented at the Lincoln Center on October 24, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Larry Busacca / Getty Images for Ralph Lauren)
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – DECEMBER 1: Oprah Winfrey at the graduation ceremony on December 1, 2012 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Oprah came to South Africa for this year's graduation ceremony at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy. (Photo by Gallo Images / Sunday Times / Kevin Sutherland)
AUSTIN, TX – JANUARY 14: In this photo, provided by the Oprah Winfrey Network, Oprah Winfrey (D) speaks to Lance Armstrong during an interview at about the controversy surrounding his cycling career on January 14, 2013 in Austin, Texas. Oprah Winfrey's exclusive and exclusive interview with Lance Armstrong, entitled "Oprah and Lance Armstrong: Global Exclusivity", has expanded to become a two-night event on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. The special episode of 'Oprahâs Next Chapter & # 39; will air on Thursday, January 17 from 9 am to 10:30 pm ET / PT (as previously announced) and Friday, January 18th at 9 pm. ET / PT. The interview will be broadcast simultaneously live, worldwide, both nights on Oprah.com. (Photo of George Burns / Oprah Winfrey Network via Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA – JANUARY 18: Actors Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey arrive at the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium January 18, 2014 in Los Angeles. Angeles, California. (Photo by Jeffrey Mayer / WireImage)
LOS ANGELES, CA – AUGUST 12: (LR) Actors James Marsden, Oprah Winfrey and Minka Kelly attend the party after the show at LEE DANIELS & # 39; The BUTLER in Los Angeles Angeles, presented by TWC, Budweiser and FIJI Water, Purity Vodka and Stack Wines, at the Ritz-Carlton on August 12, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mike Windle / Getty Images for TWC)
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – AUGUST 12: Oprah Winfrey at Press Conference 'Lee Daniels' The Butler's at the Four Seasons Hotel on August 12, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Vera Anderson / WireImage)
LOS ANGELES, CA – AUGUST 12: Oprah Winfrey attends the premiere of LEE DANIELS & # 39; THE BUTLER Los Angeles, curated by TWC, Budweiser & FIJI Water, Purity Vodka & Stack Wines, at Regal Cinemas LA Live on August 12, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mike Windle / Getty Images for TWC)
SANTA MONICA, CA – JANUARY 16: Oprah Winfrey, actress personality and television host, attends the 19th Annual Critics' Choice Awards Ceremony Movie Awards at Barker Hangar, Santa Monica California. (Photo by Steve Granitz / WireImage)
SANTA BARBARA, CA – FEBRUARY 05: Oprah Winfrey performs on stage at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival at the Arlington Theater on February 5, 2014 in Santa Barbara, California. (Photo by Michael Kovac / WireImage)
SANTA BARBARA, CA – FEBRUARY 5: Oprah Winfrey visits the Moet & Chandon Lounge after receiving the Montecito Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival at the Arlington Theater on February 5, 2014 in Santa Barbara, California. (Photo by Michael Kovac / WireImage)
NEW YORK (NY) – Aug. 4: Producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg attend the New York Premiere "The Hundred-Foot Journey" at the Ziegfeld Theater on August 4 2014 in New York. (Photo by Jim Spellman / WireImage)
AMERICA GOOD MORNING – Oprah Winfrey goes to Social Place Square on GOON MORNING AMERICA, broadcast on 8/5/14 on ABC TV. (Photo by Ida Mae AS / ABC via Getty Images) OPRAH WINFREY
TELLURIDE, CO – AUGUST 29: Oprah Winfrey arrives at the Wild Screening at the 2014 Telluride Film Festival – Day 1 on August 29, 2014 in Telluride, Colorado . (Photo by Vivien Killilea / Getty Images for the Telluride Film Festival)
AUBURN HILLS, MI – SEPTEMBER 12: Oprah Winfrey speaks at the Auburn Hills Palace for her Life You Want tour on September 12, 2014 in Auburn Hills, Michigan. (Photo by Scott Legato / Getty Images)
SELMA, AL – JANUARY 18: EDITORIAL USE ONLY – Oprah Winfrey and John Legend stand in front of the crowd during a live special performance on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the January 18, 2015 in Selma, Alabama. (Photo by Paras Griffin / Getty Images for Paramount Pictures)
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – FEBRUARY 02: Producer / Actress Oprah Winfrey attends the 87th Oscar-nominated lunch at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 2, 2015 in Ottawa. Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz / WireImage)
NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 14: Oprah Winfrey attends the premiere of "Belief" in New York at TheTimesCenter on October 14, 2015 in New York. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy / Getty Images)
NEW YORK – OCTOBER 14: Oprah Winfrey visits CBS this morning with her co-hosts Norah O'Donnell and Gayle King on Wednesday, October 14, 2015. (Photo by Heather Wines / CBS via Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY – JUNE 12: Oprah Winfrey, Cynthia Erivo and Scott Sanders in the press room for the 70th Tony Awards ceremony at the Beacon Theater on June 12, 2016 in New York. (Photo by Walter McBride / WireImage)
GOOD MORNING AMERICA – Oprah Winfrey talks about her new drama series, the unscrupulous world of the Greenleaf family and their huge mega-church in Memphis, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, Thursday 16 June ET) broadcast on the ABC television network. (Photo by Ida Mae Astute / ABC via Getty Images) LARA SPENCER, OPRAH WINFREY
AMERICA OF GOOD MORNING – Oprah Winfrey talks about her new drama series, The Unscrupulous World of the Greenleaf Family and their haunting Memphis megachurch, in GOOD MORNING AMERICA, Thursday, June 16 (7am to 9am, ET) broadcast on the ABC television network. (Photo by Ida Mae Astute / ABC via Getty Images) OPRAH WINFREY
WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 14: US First Lady Michelle Obama (left) and Oprah Winfrey (right) participate in a Conversation on the theme "Open the way to the next "" Generation of Women "at the White House Summit on the United States of Women, June 14, 2016 in Washington, DC. The White House hosts the very first summit to advocate for gender equality. (Photo by Alex Wong / Getty Images)
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA – JUNE 15: Actress Oprah Winfrey attends the premiere of the movie 'Greenleaf'. from OWN to the Lot on June 15, 2016 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by David Livingston / Getty Images)
BURBANK, CA – AUGUST 29: Executive Producer Oprah Winfrey (left) and executive / creative producer Ava DuVernay attend OWN: The "Queen" show s Sugar "by Warner Bros, Oprah Winfrey Network Steven J. Ross Theater Studio Lot on August 29, 2016 in Burbank, California. (Photo by Mark Davis / WireImage)
NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 18: Oprah Winfrey attends the premiere of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" at the SVA Theater on April 18, 2017 in New York. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images)
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MONTECITO, CA – OCTOBER 15: Writer Oprah Winfrey and singer Margaret Bell perform at Oprah Winfrey's Gospel Brunch celebrating her new book "Wisdom of Sundays & # 39; October 15, 2017 in Montecito, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images)
ATLANTA, GA – NOVEMBER 3: Oprah Winfrey speaks at the Ron Clark Academy's 10th Anniversary Celebration at the Ron Clark Academy on November 3rd, 2017 in Atlanta. in Georgia. (Photo by Prince Williams / WireImage)
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA – NOVEMBER 7: Oprah Winfrey attends a recording of "Queen Sugar After-Show" at OWN on November 7, 2017 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jason LaVeris / FilmMagic)
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This appearance ended a relatively quiet period for O & # Rourke since his loss to incumbent Republican Senator Ted Cruz, Texas, in November. 19659002] His defeat in a solidly Republican state, combined with record fundraising and a succession of rock stars, sparked two separate "Draft Beto" attempts by Democratic consultants who call him the face of 39, a new generation.
"He's running," said Nate Lerner, the co-founder of DraftBeto.org, after hearing O & # 39; Rourke's comments. "We celebrate here."
Lerner, whose volunteer group rallied O 'Rourke' s support to state officials and activists, said that the timing of this decision was not enough. would not affect his prospects.
"A year later now, no one will care or remember Beto O. Rourke's announcement," he said. "The momentum you have in February 2019 will be much less than that of February 2020. Beto O 'Rourke is a momentum machine."
While O & # Rourke made an offer, other renowned Democrats such as Senators Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand announced their intention to introduce themselves and are already going into States where the first nomination competitions will take place.
Winfrey, which has itself been the subject of speculation The 2020 Democratic candidate, who has so far expressed little opposition, has become a political force in its own right in recent years.
Last year, she campaigned for Georgia governor candidate Stacey Abrams, lost in another tight race in November, but is widely seen as a rising Democratic star.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts
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Julian Castro, Former Mayor of San Antonio and Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
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Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California
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John Delaney, former Maryland Congressman
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, New York
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Richard Ojeda, former Senator of West Virginia and Veteran
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Dem. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii
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Andrew Yang, Founder of Venture for America
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Pete Buttigeig, Mayor of South Bend, Indiana
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Howard Schultz, former CEO of Starbucks
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(Joseph Reportage Axis; Additional report by Carlo Allegri, edited by Colleen Jenkins and Sonya Hepinstall)
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