Will First Lady Run for the Senate in ’18?
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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Senator Michelle Obama?
The New York Post’s Page Six said Thursday that close friends of President Obama are egging on the first lady to run for the U.S. Senate seat from California in 2018.
In a report Thursday in Orbmagazine.com, California Senator Dianne Feinstein has been dropping hints that this will her last term. Feinstein is 81.
Neither the president nor his wife have indicated what their post-White House plans are after 2016.
However, the Post says that a friend familiar with the first couple mused that California would be the perfect environment since, “Barack could golf year-round, and Michelle could emerge from his shadow after 20 years and retake control of her own life.”
The first lady has been previously quoted as saying she has no interest in a political life after her husband’s second term is up.
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