Editor envisions run by Chelsea Clinton

Politico magazine contributing editor Bill Scher, a New York native, thinks a New York transplant, former first daughter Chelsea Clinton, should return to her roots and run for the U.S. Senate. In Arkansas.

Bill and Hillary Clinton’s only child was born in Little Rock but moved to Washington after her father’s successful 1992 White House bid.

She lives in Manhattan’s Flatiron District and has been mentioned as a potential candidate for the U.S. House or U.S. Senate from New York.

Democrats in Arkansas will be looking for a strong candidate if U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton gives up his seat to serve as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, something that has been proposed.

Arkansas voters, who embraced Bill Clinton during all but one of his gubernatorial elections and a congressional campaign, overwhelmingly rejected his wife Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, when she ran as the 2016 Democratic nominee for president.

But Scher, writing for the widely read political outlet, says Chelsea Clinton has the potential to be a stronger candidate.

She “has the Clinton name but little of the Clinton baggage. She wouldn’t hurt for name recognition or campaign cash,” Scher wrote.

Politico, which focuses on politics and government, is widely read inside the Beltway.