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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper told a small gathering at a New Hampshire diner Wednesday morning that he is running for president.
And in his next breath, he told Roots Cafe and Robie's Country Store that he had not made a final decision.
"I've never said it before," an enlivened Hickenlooper says in a video of the comments, grabbing his chest and blushing. "I'm the governor of Colorado and I'm running for president. … To be honest, to be honest, I have made a final decision. "
The moment was captured on New Hampshire radio reporter and posted on Twitter.
At Roots Cafe / Robie 's Country Store in Hooksett Gov. John Hickenlooper @hickforco says he's running for President, then kinda walks back #FITN #nhpolitics #WMUR pic.twitter.com/GuQ7GmU5uN
– Adam Sexton (@AdamSextonWMUR) October 31, 2018
Brad Komar, director of Hickenlooper's Giddy Up! PAC, said the governor was joking.
"The governor makes it clear that he has made a decision yet," Komar said. "If he had, his wife would have been first to know. He is in New Hampshire to support 2018 candidates up and down the nerd. "
Hickenlooper has been crisscrossing the nation this fall, Iowa and now New Hampshire. His PAC also made numerous donations to elected officials in those states.
Colorado Rising Action, a conservative political group, Hickenlooper is a skirting campaign finance laws. Jeb Bush, who held out announcing his candidacy so he could continue to raise money for a PAC.
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