Things are going so poorly in the White House that potential candidates to run against Trump in the 2020 election (assuming No. 45 hasn't gotten booted out of office) are already being discussed in earnest. In Washington state, with the recent win of a lawsuit to block Trump’s executive order stopping travel from seven mostly Muslim nations, both Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Governor Jay Inslee are names that seem to be coming up most often for the Democratic bill.

Today's Seattle Times piece from political reporter Jim Brunner drives home the idea of Inslee being a strong contender for the next presidential candidacy, even with Inslee's insistence that he has no such ambitions. Not right now, anyway:

“I love this job. It’s really not in the stars. I am focused on this,” he said.

Repeated appearances on and interviews by biggie news platforms ranging from CNN, MSNBC and the BBC, to NPR, The Washington Post, POLITICO and The New York Times, seem to indicate otherwise.

Only time will tell. But we can keep on hoping for salvation from a Washingtonian. It might be the only thing that gets us through the next 1,350 days.