It’s getting late in the game, but the Democratic Party may see another candidate for president: Al Gore, former vice president under Bill Clinton’s administration.
Supporters of the climate change activist have started chatting up the idea, trying to determine if he’d prove a viable candidate in the face of Hillary Clinton’s poll troubles, BuzzFeed reported.
In 2000, Gore won the popular vote against then-presidential contender George W. Bush, but ultimately lost during a drawn-out ballot counting drama that went to the U.S. Supreme Court. Since, Gore’s been one of the environmental activism crowd’s most ardent spokespeople.
But in the last few days, talk has surfaced about him joining the political rings again, as a Democratic Party presidential candidate.
“They’re figuring out if there’s a path financially and politically,” one senior Democrat source told BuzzFeed. “It feels more real than it has in the past months.”
Gore’s not expressed interest yet in the move. And one of his own associates characterized the talk this way: “This is people talking to people, some of whom may or may not have talked to him,” BuzzFeed said.
Roy Neel, a former top adviser to Gore, also threw cold water on the idea, saying a run for the high office for the former vice president was “extremely unlikely.”
But the chatter continues.
ABC’s Rick Klein tweeted about the matter, and shortly after, Gore started trending on Twitter, the Hill reported.
