'I think America's going to be looking for a zen president after this,' Rep. Tim Ryan said in an interview with CNN.
Rebecca MorinWASHINGTON – Rep. Tim Ryan, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, said Wednesday that the wants to be the"zen president" Americans are looking for following President Donald Trump's tenure.
Ryan noted past presidents who remained composed during national emergencies, such as Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt during times of war and John F. Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis."That's what it means to be a president," he told CNN,"not what we have now." The Ohio congressman is one of nearly two dozen Democrats vying to be their party's presidential nominee in 2020. However, he has struggled to stand out in the large primary field. He has yet to qualify for September's debate, which requires candidates to hit 2% in four qualifying polls and tally at least 130,000 individual donors.Beginning in December of 2012, Ryan called on Capitol Hill lawmakers to gather and sit in silence.
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