Not to me anyway. He mentioned governor of Minnesota, but just in passing, not something he is seriously focusing on.
Liz Cheney is a different kettle of fish. She appears to think that the majority of her Republican House colleagues have lost their minds (I can't say that I differ). Al doesn't feel that way about his former Senate colleagues. He feels they were all perfectly compos mentis--just petty, mean, and cowardly, which was something he never expected from them. His disappointment was vast, and his depression was profound. He is certainly not interested in challenging Amy Klobuchar, whom he still admires, and nor does he blame Tina Smith, who was selected to replace him. Smith was not someone whose goal it was to replace him from the beginning.
I doubt Roger Stone ever imagined in his wildest dreams that Al would actually be mobbed out of the Senate by his closest allies. He must have been rubbing his hands in glee at the sheep-like way in which so many Democratic Senators publicly called for Al's resignation. Even then, Al was prepared to fight it. The last straw to him was when the governor of Minnesota publicly announced his replacement. More than two thirds of those who publicly trashed him and called for his resignation have never made the slightest gesture of contrition. If Al were to return to the Senate, he would probably be better treated on a personal level by Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham than he would be by Maria Cantwell or Maggie Hassan, even though he hates what McConnell and Graham stand for, and supports everything that Maria Cantwell and Maggie Hassan stand for. I don't blame him for wondering how he could possibly get serious work done under those circumstances. By the way, Franni feels even stronger about the whole affair. than Al does. She would probably bar the door if she thought Al was going out to try to reconcile with the ones who stabbed him in the back, and still refuse to publicly admit--after four years!--that they were wrong to do so.
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