Hickenlooper in 2016? Odds are ‘1 in 20,000’
Colorado's governor seems happy to stay put in Denver.
John Hickenlooper, governor of Colorado, speaks during the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado, U.S., on Tuesday, July 1, 2014.
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Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper says don’t bet on him to run for president in 2016.
The Democrat, who won re-election in November even as Republicans picked up a U.S. Senate seat and took over the state senate, was in Washington along with other governors to meet President Barack Obama at the White House today. When asked what the chance is that he’d seek the presidency himself, he sought to lower expectations.