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2. She'd better do something first

Tue Jun 1, 2021, 09:47 AM

Jun 2021

Something other than being a senator, that is. It’s only happened three times in US history that a sitting senator won the presidency—Harding, Kennedy, Obama.

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/A_Senator_Becomes_President.htm

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Why Gillibrand wants to run for president again [View all] brooklynite Jun 2021 OP

Don't see her snowybirdie Jun 2021 #1

She'd better do something first frazzled Jun 2021 #2

She will never be forgiven for what she did to Al Franken samsingh Jun 2021 #4

+1, she doesn't understand how much that affected people uponit7771 Jun 2021 #5

Well her and 38 other Senators ChrisF1961 Jun 2021 #8

Give it up. You're never going to get people to stop blaming her kcr Jun 2021 #9

Yes why let the facts ChrisF1961 Jun 2021 #10

Gillibrand doubled down on Franken wellst0nev0ter Jun 2021 #12

But she needed her .5 percent!!! n/m BradAllison Jun 2021 #13

I SURE WON'T. Trueblue1968 Jun 2021 #19

tell her not to quit her day job WhiteTara Jun 2021 #3

Because she is a glutton for punishment? tritsofme Jun 2021 #6

She's a hard no for me Johonny Jun 2021 #7

I like Gillibrand a lot. nt RegularJam Jun 2021 #11

That's a no for me dawg. n/m BradAllison Jun 2021 #14

She has time to repair her image and Build Back Better. oasis Jun 2021 #15

She could always remind us again that Tara Reade "came forward." DFW Jun 2021 #16

Al Franken.... that ALL I need to know. Rustyeye77 Jun 2021 #17

Lol. OnDoutside Jun 2021 #18

It would be a waste of time and money Meowmee Jun 2021 #20