Many Tennesseans remember Harold Ford Jr. as a liberal former Democrat member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District in Memphis.
Since he lost a U.S. Senate race to Tennessee’s successful conservative Republican U.S. Sen. Bob Corker of Chattanooga, Mr. Ford has turned up occasionally as a political commentator on network television, having moved to New York.
Now, Mr. Ford is “in the news” as a possible U.S. Senate candidate again — but this time in New York. Yes, that’s right: New York.
Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand is an appointed U.S. senator in New York, who reportedly has not connected popularly with some New York voters. So, according to The New York Times, some of Mr. Ford’s liberal admirers are urging him to run for the U.S. Senate against Sen. Gillibrand in New York’s Democratic primary this year.
Will he?
Well, he says he is considering the idea, and will decide within the next 45 days.
How would he run as a recently transplanted New Yorker? Who knows?
But he should fit New York politics better than Tennessee’s.