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Oprah Winfrey, the media mogul famous for her jaw-dropping audience giveaways, is “actively thinking” about a presidential run in 2020, according to a report.
The revelation came after Winfrey’s rousing Golden Globes speech earned a standing ovation Sunday night, and fueled speculation she might launch a White House bid.
Two of the cultural icon’s pals told CNN her close confidantes have been urging her to run for several months, and while she’s been mulling it over, she hasn’t made a decision yet.
After the Globes, Winfrey’s partner, Stedman Graham, said she’d be game for a presidential run — if she had the public’s support.
“It’s up to the people,” he told the Los Angeles Times. “She would absolutely do it.”
White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said, “We welcome all comers.”
Winfrey’s acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award addressed race, her humble roots and the #MeToo movement.
“I’ve interviewed and portrayed people who’ve withstood some of the ugliest things life can throw at you, but the one quality all of them seem to share is an ability to maintain hope for a brighter morning, even during our darkest nights,” she said.
“So I want all the girls watching here, now, to know that a new day is on the horizon!” Winfrey declared in a line fit for a stump speech. She ended with the vision of a day when “nobody ever has to say, ‘Me too,’ again.”
Her message spawned the hashtag #Oprah2020 on Twitter — and celebrities were quick to back a potential bid for president.
“She launched a rocket tonight. I want her to run for president,” Meryl Streep gushed to The Washington Post. “I don’t think she had any intention [of declaring]. But now she doesn’t have a choice.”
Former “Hamilton” star Leslie Odom Jr. wrote, “She’s running. A new day is on the way,” in a tweet that’s been liked 7,000 times.
Calling her a “gift” and a “trailblazer,” former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile said she’s confident Winfrey would make an exemplary president.
“Oprah Winfrey is one of the most astute, compassionate and talented leaders in our country,” she told The Post. “There’s no question that she would be an outstanding president of the United States. She’s transformational, inspiring and, more importantly, she transcends the partisan lines and divisions.”
Winfrey, 63, a self-made tycoon with a reported net worth of $2.9 billion whose talk show aired for 25 seasons, might once have been viewed as a far-fetched candidate. But that’s not so in the President Trump era.
“Look, it’s ridiculous — and I get that. But, at the same time, politics is ridiculous right now,” said Democratic operative Brad Anderson, who ran former President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign in Iowa.
GOP strategist Susan Del Percio said “anything is possible” when it comes to Winfrey having a shot at stealing away the White House from Trump.
“Many are frustrated with the Democratic bench,” she explained. “But does the country want to take another chance on someone with zero experience in government? That would potentially be a challenge she’d have to face.”
Winfrey, who created her own TV network and has taken on social issues as a special correspondent for CBS’s “60 Minutes,” has dismissed questions about a possible presidential bid in the past.
But in an interview with Bloomberg News last March, she said Trump’s win made her rethink the idea that government experience is necessary to hold the office.
“I thought, ‘Oh, gee, I don’t have the experience, I don’t know enough.’ And now I’m thinking, ‘Oh. Oh!’ ” she said with a laugh.
Throwing some water on the speculation was NBC correspondent Peter Alexander, who tweeted that a source told the network: “It’s not happening. She has no intention of running.”
A Public Policy Polling survey from last March showed Winfrey with a 47 to 40 percent lead over Trump in a potential face-off.
In a Quinnipiac poll conducted the same month, 52 percent of Americans said they had a favorable view of her, while only 23 percent said it was unfavorable. But 69 percent said she shouldn’t run for president.
“What we know right now is that Oprah can read moments and speak to them in a way that braids her story to those in many people’s dreams,” said Michael Cornfield, a political scientist at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management.
“My Republican mother-in-law hates Hillary and loves Oprah.”
But Winfrey would have to prove she’s knowledgable about economic, international and military issues, Cornfield added.
“Could she win? Yeah,” he said. “Would it be good for the nation to have back-to-back amateurs as president? Much harder and more important question.”
Additional reporting by Mark Moore and Wires