Gutiérrez Talking 2020 Run

As soon as Congressman Luis Gutiérrez (D-IL) announced his retirement earlier this week, the rumor mill about his next steps started churning. While Gutiérrez said that he was not running for Mayor of Chicago or Governor of Puerto Rico or Illinois, he did not close the door to future political runs. Now, Gutiérrez is setting a schedule for the first six months of 2018 that would take him across the country, to test the waters for a 2020 presidential bid. "I will be reaching out to people across the country. I am going to take the steps to guarantee [Federal Election Commission] regulations and rules about campaign financing, first and foremost, make sure I'm following the law," Gutiérrez told Politico. "This is what I can tell you — anybody really wanted to listen to me — look, I'm not retiring, I'm not retiring ... I want to build something, I want to build something national." Read more here.