LANSING, MI — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder “is running” for president, according to a former U.S. Senator, whose comments at a Republican confab were quickly contradicted by a spokesman for the governor, who said he has not made any decisions of that kind.
“I met with Rick Snyder yesterday,” former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman told reporters on Saturday morning at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s spring meeting, according to the Guardian and other publications. “He’s running. He’s running.”
Snyder was in Las Vegas this weekend to attend the RJC meeting as part of what his advisors are calling an economic tour.
“Governor Snyder is traveling the country to tell the remarkable Michigan comeback story. The country can learn from the historic reinvention of Michigan and the Governor is helping change the perception of the state nationally,” spokesman Jarrod Agen said in a statement Saturday afternoon.