Dodd To Run for President
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NEW YORK (AP) – Senator Dodd, Democrat from COnnecticut and a veteran lawmaker who entered Congress in the post-Watergate class of 1974, will announce his bid for the presidency, Democratic officials said Wednesday.
Senator Dodd, 62, will make the formal announcement in an interview Thursday morning on the “Imus in the Morning” radio show – a curious bit of timing since he’ll be forced to compete with heavy coverage of President Bush’s speech on the Iraq war.
Senator Dodd will travel late Thursday to Iowa, which will host the first presidential nominating caucus next January. He heads to South Carolina, an early primary state, on Sunday.
Kathy Sullivan, the chairwoman of the Democratic Party in New Hamsphire, said in an interview that she had spoken toSenator Dodd and he said, “‘I’m not going to do the exploratory thing, I’m going to plunge right in.”
