 
 
 Michele Bachmann speaks at the 2014 Values Voter Summit in Washington. Michele Bachmann, the former U.S. representative from Minnesota and one-time Republican presidential candidate, said in a TV interview that she is mulling a political comeback by running for the U.S. Senate seat vacated Tuesday by Al Franken. Bachmann, who has five children and fostered 23 children, has become somewhat of a hero in some conservative circles, taking the stage at several conservative Christian conferences, including the Family Research Council’s Values Voters Summit. She served four terms in Congress from the Sixth Congressional District, from 2007 to 2014, and was an unsuccessful GOP candidate for president in 2012. "The price is bigger than ever because the swamp is so toxic," Bachmann said, borrowing a campaign refrain from President Trump to "drain the swamp" of Washington, D.C. 
 
 Bachmann did not respond to a phone message left at her home on Tuesday. We're just normal," she said, "If you're a billionaire, maybe you can defend yourself." "I've had people contact me and urge me to run for that Senate seat. John 8:7 MEV So when they continued asking Him, He stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” 
 
 2 Timothy 3:1 MEV Know this: In the last days perilous times will come. In this Jan. 26, 2011 file photo, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., left, talks with Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., during the "Hot Dish Off," cooking contest in Franken's office on Capitol Hill in Washington, 
 
 On Wednesday, Lt. Gov. Smith has pledged to run for the remainder of Franken's term in a November special election; the seat will be on the ballot again in 2020, when Franken's term would have ended. So far, the only other candidate to announce a run is state Sen. Karin Housley, R-St. Marys Point. Former governor Tim Pawlenty, an outspoken evangelical and a Republican, is seen as another potential contender. “The question is, am I being called to do this now?” she said. -Michele Bachmann 
 
 I’m a big believer in the protection of childhood innocence, that’s our job.
– Conservative firebrand Michele Bachmann says she's mulling a run for Al Franken's Senate seat, the Star Tribune reports. The former Minnesota congresswoman, whose controversial remarks helped make her a mainstay in 2012 Republican primary coverage, recently shared the news on The Jim Bakker Show, though she told the televangelist she's not quite ready to announce. "The question is, am I being called to do this now?” she said, per the Washington Post. “I don’t know.” While Bachmann served on the Trump campaign's evangelical advisory council, she's largely been absent from politics since leaving Congress in 2015. However, Franken's official resignation on Tuesday following allegations of sexual misconduct may well bring Bachmann back to the fore. As a potential candidate, Bachmann already has an opponent in Lt. Gov. Tina Smith, who's been tapped to replace Franken starting Wednesday. Smith has pledged to run in the November special election to replace Franken for the final two years of his term, as has state Sen. Karin Housley, a Republican. Ever the outsider, Bachmann said she also has a foe in the Washington establishment. "It is really tough ... if you are trying to stand for biblical principles in DC," she told Bakker. "The swamp is so toxic."