Meanwhile, Eric Holder recently raised some eyebrows about his future political aspirations when he told Yahoo News that he was looking “to be more visible.” Here’s more from the\u00a0Washington Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cUp to now, I have been more behind-the-scenes.\u00a0 But that\u2019s about to change.<\/strong>\u00a0I have a certain status as the former attorney general. A certain familiarity as the first African-American attorney general. There\u2019s a justified perception that I\u2019m close to President Obama.\u00a0So I want to use whatever skills I have, whatever notoriety I have, to be effective in opposing things that are, at the end of the day, just bad for the country.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cNow is the time to be more visible.\u00a0 Now is the time to be heard.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2026 I thought, frankly, along with everybody else, that after the election, with Hillary Clinton as president, I could walk off the field. So when she didn\u2019t win, I thought, \u2018We\u2019ll have to see how this plays out.\u2019 But it became clear relatively soon \u2014 and certainly sooner than I expected \u2014 that I had to get back on the field and be in effective opposition.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n But, while Joe and Eric may be interested in a 2020 bid, we suspect that neither potential candidate will get very far along the campaign trail without the blessings of their former boss.\u00a0 Unfortunately, according to\u00a0Politico<\/a>,\u00a0Obama seems to have gone all-in on his long-time friend and former Massachusetts governor, Deval Patrick.<\/strong><\/p>\n Barack Obama is nudging him to run.<\/strong>\u00a0His inner circle is actively encouraging it.\u00a0Obama world\u2019s clear and away 2020 favorite<\/strong>\u00a0is sitting right here, on the 38th floor of the John Hancock Building, in a nicely decorated office at Bain Capital.<\/p>\n And Deval Patrick has many thoughts on what he says is Donald Trump\u2019s governing by fear and a dishonest pitch for economic nostalgia, while encouraging a rise in casual racism and ditching any real commitment to civil rights.<\/p>\n Obama strategist David Axelrod has had several conversations with Patrick about running,<\/strong>\u00a0and eagerly rattles off the early primary map logic: small-town campaign experience from his 2006 gubernatorial run that will jibe perfectly with Iowa, neighbor-state advantage in New Hampshire and the immediate bloc of votes he\u2019d have as an African-American heading into South Carolina.<\/p>\n Valerie Jarrett, Obama\u2019s close adviser and friend, says that a President Patrick is what \u201cmy heart desires.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n David Simas, Obama\u2019s political director in the White House and now the CEO of his foundation, used to be Patrick\u2019s deputy chief of staff and remains perhaps his biggest fan on the planet.<\/p>\n Obama himself<\/strong>\u2014who is personally close to Patrick, and counts him among the very small group of people whom he thinks has actual political talent\u2014has privately encouraged him to think about it, among others.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Patrick has, up to this point, denied any interest in the White House. That said, in the political world, as we all know too well, those who deny the hardest are usually the most likely candidates.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m trying to think about how to be helpful, because I care about the country, and I\u2019m a patriot first. It\u2019s way, way too soon to be making plans for 2020,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Patrick told me in an interview for POLITICO\u2019s Off Message podcast recorded at Bain headquarters in Boston.\u00a0\u201cSo I\u2019ll just leave it at that.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Patrick fends off any attempts to corner him on the question, avoiding saying anything that could seem either cute or Sherman-esque\u2014\u201cdon\u2019t lead me down that path because it turns into something it isn\u2019t, and I don\u2019t want to go there,\u201d he said. \u201cI have no plans to make plans.\u201d<\/p>\n But he\u2019s clearly upset with what Trump is doing, on both policy and approach.<\/p>\n \u201cThe president, I believe, is at risk of diminishing the voice of the presidency because he pops off so often, and so, kind of, carelessly.<\/strong>\u00a0I think there is a risk both domestically, and internationally for that matter, that we\u2019ll begin to tune him out,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
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