Saying that his work largely is done, Republican Colorado Congressman and chairman of the 90 member House Immigration Reform Caucus, Tom Tancredo is acting less and less like a potential presidential contender.
Last summer Tancredo said, he would run unless a top-tier Republican candidate takes a strong position on cracking down on illegal immigration and lowering legal immigration:
My task is to get one of them to take this on. If they don't do that, if I cannot find someone to do that, if they just give lip service to it and not the heart, yeah, I will run. I will do that.
Today the Denver Post reports Tancredo's presidential campaign might be over before it begins:
"I get the feeling that I will not have to do this," Tancredo said of the presidential bid. "This issue, it's got legs, and they're not necessarily mine anymore."
Between January and November last year, Tancredo visited New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina a total of 17 times. Tancredo is spending this two-week Congressional break in Colorado and has no plans to visit those states in the near future.
Right now Tancredo is focusing on his reelection to the House.
Congressman Tancredo was quoted somewhere or other, fairly recently, as expressing interest in running for Senate instead (assuming Wayne Allard keeps his promise to serve only 2 terms).
Posted by: Christopher Walker | Friday, April 14, 2006 at 12:57 PM