Peter King: I’m Thinking of Running for President To Stop Rand Paul and Ted Cruz

‘When I saw Hillary Clinton yesterday, I told her to get ready’

Peter King: I'm Thinking of Running for President To Stop Rand Paul and Ted Cruz (RealClearPolitics)

WOLF BLITZER: We're out of time, but one quick political question. Are you thinking of running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016?

REP. PETER KING (R-NY): I'm certainly looking at it. I'll be back in New Hampshire on June 21st. And when I saw Hillary Clinton yesterday, I told her to get ready.

BLITZER: Get ready. You think it's possible you could win that Republican nomination, she would get the Democratic nomination -

KING: Oh, I don't know -

BLITZER: And I would be moderating debates presumably between you and Hillary Clinton, is that what you're saying?

KING: It would be a good show, it really would. No, seriously, I'm - I mean I - I'm looking at this because I see people like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz and, to me, I don't want the Republican Party going in that direction. Whether it's me or someone else, I want to do all that I can to make sure that what I call the realistic foreign policy wing and national security wing of the Republican Party does not give into the isolationists. And I don't want to go back to the 1930s and the days of Charles Lindbergh.

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