Oprah to run for President in 2020? Everything you need to know

“I like Oprah. I don’t think she’s gonna run“, he said, joking that he hoped the assembled reporters would have “enough material”.

Winfrey’s rousing speech at Sunday’s Golden Globes Awards ceremony ignited speculation that the billionaire talk show queen is harboring Oval Office ambitions.

Buzz surrounding a possible presidential bid for Winfrey began after her speech at the Golden Globes on Sunday night.

In fact, Trump knows her so well he named Oprah as his ideal running partner back in 1999 on Larry King Live.

She had told CBS last October: “There’ll be no running for office of any kind for me”. She knew that she met the moment, but the reaction to the speech has been sort of overwhelming to her. It was very nice.

According to a new poll, it would happen – assuming she even chooses to run.

“Is she a successful individual?”

She added: “You just have to convince her. What does she do next with it?” said Dr Alan Schroeder, a journalism professor at Northeastern University in Boston who has written on the intersection of show business and politics.

“I do think this though guys, I do think she’s intrigued by the idea, I do think that”, King continued.

The Washington Examiner’s Philip Wegmann labeled Winfrey a “gold mine of opposition research”, pointing to stories such as the time advice given on her show led a woman to decide against receiving cancer treatment due to a belief she could be healed through “positive thinking”.

People started slamming her for showing support for the #TimesUp movement without also addressing at least some of the allegations against her dad. I probably wouldn’t, but I do get exhausted of seeing what’s happening with this country. During her speech, Winfrey recalled watching Sidney Poitier win at the Golden Globes for 1964’s Lilies of the Field and how it was the first time she saw a black man celebrated on television.

“Until this election year I thought, ‘Wow”.

“It’s something that she would really search within herself about what she can and wants to do”. So, there’s no question in mind that she would be a formidable opponent. But listen, there are people who have said they want to be her campaign manager, who want to quit their jobs and campaign for her. “She would absolutely do it“.