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LA Mayor may consider 2020 White House run: report

Xinhua, May 3, 2017 Adjust font size:

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was reported by the New York Times on Monday that he may consider running as a Democratic presidential candidate in 2020.

According to the article, Garcetti may consider running, but unidentified "allies" of the mayor "acknowledged that national donors had broached the subject of 2020 but said that was the extent of his attention to the race."

It was the first time that Garcetti had been linked in a major media outlet to a 2020 run. Besides him, the article also listed former Vice President Joe Biden, U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, and Bernie Sanders as high-profile Democrats mulling a run three years later.

Yusef Robb, a spokesman for Garcetti, said Monday that the mayor had no comment on the report.

Garcetti, the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles, is the city's first elected Jewish mayor, as well as its youngest and second Mexican American mayor in over a century.

He was widely thought to be considering a run for governor of California in 2018 after winning a second mayoral term in March with 81 percent of the vote.

Garcetti was raised in the San Fernando Valley in California and earned his B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University. He is a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy reserve and is an avid jazz pianist and photographer. Endi