Former US secretary of state John Kerry said Tuesday he was not ruling out another tilt at the White House in 2020 but that in the here and now, Donald Trump should quit. Kerry was the Democrats’ defeated candidate in 2004 and if he did pursue a long-shot bid again, he would join a growing field from his party. On Monday, Senator Kamala Harris entered the fray, bidding to become the first African-American woman to hold the presidency. Trump was guilty of “lies”, not least over the Paris climate accord, Kerry added during a discussion with UN oceans envoy Peter Thomson and Rebecca Shaw, chief scientist for environmental group WWF. Asked what message he would give Trump were the president sitting opposite him, Kerry said to laughter: “Resign.”(AFP)DOWNLOAD THE PUNCH NEWS APP NOW ON

Source: Punch January 22, 2019 19:06 UTC