CNN President Jeff Zucker Says He’s Interested in Running for Office in Future
CNN President Jeff Zucker appeared Monday on ‘The Axe Files,’ the CNN podcast with contributor and politico David Axelrod for an hour-long interview touching on a variety of topics including, of course, President Donald Trump and his feud with the network. But right near the end, Zucker dropped a bit of a surprise about his future: elections.
Axelrod asked him to close out the interview where he’d be in five years, and Zucker said he doesn’t know for sure where he’ll be. After a bit of banter, he dropped his hint for the next big thing.
“I still harbor somewhere in my gut that I’m still very interested in politics,” he said.
“You turned down an opportunity to work for Al Gore in 2000, you’ve talked in the past about potentially running for office…” prompted Axelrod.
“So I’m still interested in that,” said Zucker, “and it’s something that I’d be interested in.
Given the shuffling among Democrats for running against Trump in 2020, and the topics of the podcast leading up to that moment, and given the network’s history with Trump not to mention Zucker’s own history with him, it’s impossible not to hear that as a trial balloon about his potentially running this next time around.
Listen to the clip above, courtesy of The Axe Files.
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