WASHINGTON — Friday, at an event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams declined to say whether she would be running for president in 2020, but said that she was "going to look at the 2020 presidential election."

"I'm looking at executive level opportunities, and that means that I am going to look at the 2020 presidential election," she said.

Following gasps from the audience, Abrams laughed, and said, "Stop. Stop. I didn't announce anything. We have an amazing crop of candidates running, but as I have tried to articulate, this is early."

She added: "I want to see what these candidates talk about. I think a number of them have been talking about what needs to be done...my goal is to think about whether I should be a part of this conversation."

Abrams went through some of her other political options, leaving the door open to serving as a vice presidential candidate, or perhaps running for Georgia governor again.

"If I decide not to run, and someone wins and decides they like me, I'm open to conversations after June [2020]. And there still is a state of Georgia, and it does need a governor, and I'm going to be looking at that too."

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Abrams lost to Republican Brian Kemp in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, and her political future has since been a subject of some speculation. Abrams recently shot down rumors that she would be former Vice President Joe Biden's running mate, telling MSNBC in April, “I do not believe you run for second place and I do not intend to enter a presidential race as a primary candidate for vice president.”