Michele Bachmann: God Doesn’t Want Me to Run for Senate

Michele Bachmann says she will not run for Sen. Al Franken’s vacated Senate seat because God told her not to run. The Republican ex-congresswoman had previously expressed interest in running for the seat after Franken resigned amid multiple sexual-misconduct allegations leveled against him. “I considered it for quite a long time,” Bachmann said during an interview this weekend. “From the very first day when Al Franken had announced his resignation from the U.S. Senate, I went before the Lord and it became very clear to me that I wasn’t hearing any call from God to do this.”