Tancredo "50-50" On 2010 Senate Run

by: Colorado Pols

Mon Jul 02, 2007 at 17:47:12 PM MDT

He may be running for President, but that doesn't stop Rep. Tom Tancredo from talking about running for something else. M.E. Sprengelmeyer of the Rocky Mountain News reports on Tancredo's future political thinking in a wide-ranging Q&A...

SPRENGELMEYER: Are you definitely, definitely in the race until February 6th, even if you're polling on February 6th where you are today?

TANCREDO: I don't think so, and here's one reason: because we will not be able to get any money to stay in the race for any length of time if that's the case. You know, you do have to have some money to make this thing work. Certainly, the immigration issue has helped out. In the last week, it would be actually, not this last week but the week before, we raised over $200,000 in one week, and much of it of course was as a result of what was happening in the Senate with that immigration bill...

...SPRENGELMEYER: So I've kind of assumed that if you don't win the White House, you will be running for Congress again. Is that wrong?

TANCREDO: It is wrong to assume that is the thing that will happen.

SPRENGELMEYER: So it's still up in the air?

TANCREDO: Yes...

...SPRENGELMEYER: So if you're not president by then -- or maybe you'd resign the presidency just so you could run against Salazar -- is it pretty likely that if you're not elected president, likely that you're going to run against Sen. Salazar in 2010?

TANCREDO: No, I don't think I can say that in all honesty... It's 50-50 because, once again, you know, that's a long time. If I run for the House again and do that, that takes a lot out of you. You're talking about I'd be 64 years old. You're looking at another six years after that if you make it. Six years commitment, 70 years old, on the plane, back-and-forth, back-and-forth. That part doesn't have any allure whatsoever.