Yates: ‘I don’t really see running for office’

Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates said Tuesday that she doesn’t see a political campaign in her future.

Yates became a hero for some Democrats in January when President Trump fired her after she refused to defend his travel ban as head of the Department of Justice. 

“I don’t really see running for office,” Yates said at the Aspen Ideas Festival. “I’m not entirely sure what I’m going to do next. I’m taking some time with my family now and starting to talk to some folks. And I want to be able to find an avenue where I can continue to have an impact on issues that I care about.

“But running for office has never been anything I could picture myself doing.”

{mosads}Speculation swirled in the months after Yates’s ouster that she could run for the Democratic nomination for governor of Georgia. But Yates quelled those rumors in May, telling the New Yorker that she was “totally ruling out the governor’s race.”

“I recognize that I may have a voice that I didn’t have before,” Yates said. “And part of what I want to be able to do is to figure out how I can responsibly use that voice in a way to impact things that I think really matter. I just don’t know what form that takes.”