For once, someone who doesn’t come from reality TV or entertainment is being talked up for a 2020 presidential run — former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.

Politico reports that Team Obama is pushing Patrick to challenge Donald Trump.

“Obama strategist David Axelrod has had several conversations with Patrick about running, and eagerly rattles off the early primary map logic: small-town campaign experience from his 2006 gubernatorial run that will jibe perfectly with Iowa, neighbor-state advantage in New Hampshire and the immediate bloc of votes he’d have as an African-American heading into South Carolina.”

Presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett says a President Patrick is what “my heart desires.”

And Barack Obama himself?

He’s “privately encouraged him to think about it,” Politico says.

“Patrick fends off any attempts to corner him on the question, avoiding saying anything that could seem either cute or Sherman-esque — ‘Don’t lead me down that path because it turns into something it isn’t, and I don’t want to go there,’ he said. ‘I have no plans to make plans.’”

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