Appearing on Newsmax TV’s “Midpoint” program today, Rep. Michele Bachmann told host Ed Berliner that she fully intends to play a significant role in public policy debates and the 2016 presidential election after leaving Congress at the end of her term, especially if Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic nomination.
As the only Republican woman to ever participate in televised presidential debates and “the only woman Republican candidate who ever won a presidential contest,” Bachmann asserted that “I occupy a unique space” in public sphere and therefore she intends to be “heavily involved in the 2016 race, in particular if Hillary Clinton is the nominee for president on the Democrat [sic] side.”
Bachmann, of course, won the Iowa Straw Poll in 2011 which, as its name suggests, is nothing more than a nonbinding poll, as even the official website readily admits that “the Straw Poll results have no official or legal effect.”
Nonetheless, Bachmann has big plans to “be in the national media,” speaking around the country, appearing on radio and writing weekly columns and perhaps even a book.
“I intend to have my voice and my thoughts as far and wide as I possibly can,” she pledged, “to bring in the perspective of the conservative movement in this upcoming race in 2016. It is the pivotal race in our lifetime and I wanna be involved”:
