McAuliffe hire suggests he is interested in a second bid for Virginia governor
RICHMOND, Va. - Former governor Terry McAuliffe is staffing up his political action committee, a move that suggests the Democrat is interested in another run for the Executive Mansion in 2021.
McAuliffe, whose term ended in January 2018, has hired Chris Bolling, executive director of the state Democratic party, to lead Common Good VA PAC. The PAC has been without full-time staff since McAuliffe announced in April that he would not run for president in 2020.
McAuliffe has spent much of the past year campaigning and raising money to help Democrats win majorities in the state House of Delegates and Senate in November. The former governor's unusually active role in the elections - assumed when his successor, Gov. Ralph Northam, was sidelined by a blackface scandal, and maintained even after the Democrat largely recovered - has fed speculation that McAuliffe was mulling a comeback.
Virginia is the only state that bars governors from serving back-to-back terms. But governors are free to run again after a break. In modern times, Virginia has had just one two-term governor: Mills Godwin, who served from 1966 to 1970 as a Democrat and from 1974 to 1978 as a Republican.
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