John Hickenlooper is the former Mayor of Denver and incumbent Democratic Governor of Colorado a key swing state in Presidential elections. He has been mentioned as a possible VP pick for Hillary Clinton should she be the nominee, and although he has endorsed Hillary for President he provided a gloomy assessment of her campaign in Denver.
Gov. John Hickenlooper on Thursday became the latest Hillary Clinton supporter to express doubt about her candidacy for president, telling a Denver audience that the 2016 election is “kind of grim, to be blunt.”
Unlike most Republican candidates, Hickenlooper said he believes Clinton has the necessary background needed to run the country.
“But,” he added quickly, “I don’t know where this whole thing is going to go in terms of her … (e-mail) server and whether there is something in there that is really going to turn out to have broken the law — which I think would be the death knell.”
Hickenlooper is not the only Governor from Colorado to share their concerns on Hillary Clinton,
former three term Governor Dick Lamm said this about her.
I think she can win the Democratic nomination unless something worse happens, and I think there's a one in three chance that something worse does happen. But I think the words they associate with her — distrustful, liar and dishonest — that's not good stuff.
Hickenlooper also sounded off about the Republican contenders focusing most of his fire on Donald Trump.
“Donald Trump is saying something that not just Republicans but a lot of people are responding to,” he said. “I think there’s a tremendous frustration that we have all these laws that aren’t being obeyed and that there is this kind of vacuum in our society. The middle class really is getting left behind.
“He is saying the wrong things,” Hickenlooper continued. “But I am old enough that I remember laughing when Ronald Reagan” first surfaced as a presidential candidate.