Michele Bachmann will not put herself up for Al Franken's U.S. Senate seat, saying she did not hear a call from God to run for the office.
Franken, a two-term Democratic senator, had stepped down from the Senate earlier this year after several women charged him with sexual misconduct allegations, according to The Hill newspaper.
Bachmann, a former U.S. representative and Republican presidential candidate, told radio host Jan Markell, from Olive Tree Ministries, that she would not put her hat in the ring.
"It became very clear to me that I wasn't hearing any call from God to do this," Bachmann told Markell, according to Minnesota Public Radio.
Bachmann, who retired from Congress in 2014 after running for president in 2012, said on the Jim Bakker Show on Dec. 27 that she was considering a run for Franken's seat.
"I've had people contact me and urge me to run for that Senate seat. ... And the only reason I would run is for the ability to take these principles into the United States Senate and be able to advocate for these principles," Bachmann told The Jim Bakker Show on Dec. 27.
"… If you're going against the tide in D.C.; if you're trying to stand for Biblical principles in D.C. and you stick your head up out of the hole, the blades come whirling and chop you off. … The question is am I being called to do so, I don't know," Bachmann said on the show, charging that the political environment was "so toxic" but she could handle the job.
After the interview, a billboard went up in St. Paul, Minnesota, which jokingly appeared to be a message to the former Congresswoman from God. A photo of the billboard posted on social media went viral with more than 10,000 likes and more than 3,000 retweets.
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