Ex-Mass. Sen. Scott Brown says he’s weighing comeback ‘sooner rather than later’

Is former Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Scott Brown planning a return to public life?

It sure looks that way.

In a radio interview that aired Monday, the Republican, who served from 2011 to 2013, said he’s “thinking about whether there is a run sooner or later.”

“I believe I have one more run,” Brown, who also served as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand under former President Donald Trump, told WBUR’s “Radio Boston” program.

“I think about the state of the country now. I’m sad, and I’m mad, and I’m angry,” Brown told the station in a conversation that was recorded last Friday — the day after the first presidential debate.

Brown, who lost reelection to U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and made an unsuccessful GOP Senate bid in New Hampshire in 2014, did not attach a timeline to his potential ambitions.

“It’s not going to be [2024],” he said. “I will take everything into consideration for some time thereafter.”

That decision could be predicated on “personal wants and needs,” said Brown, who also pointed to his reputation for bipartisanship on Capitol Hill.

Brown told the station he was saddened by Biden’s faltering performance at last week’s nationally televised face-off against Trump.

In the days since, some Democratic activists have suggested replacing Biden at the top of the ticket.

“I know Joe Biden. I spent a lot of time with him,” Brown, whose tenure on Capitol Hill overlapped with Biden’s tenure as vice president, said. “I’ve been to his house. I’ve been to his office. That’s not the Joe Biden I know.”

“We all know people who [are] suffering from diminished capacity, whether through Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s [diseases]. He’s clearly on his way. And it’s sad,” Brown told the station.

In May 2021, Brown told CNN that he believed Trump “absolutely” bore responsibility for the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, where the former president’s supporters violently attempted to disrupt Congress’ certification of the 2020 election results.

“Absolutely, I mean he bears responsibility. I think his presidency was diminished as a result of this, and I think he’s paying a price. He’s been impeached twice. He was impeached for those actions,” Brown told the cable news network.

Speaking to WBUR, Brown said he intended to support Trump “notwithstanding” his actions during the violence at the Capitol, which led to the deaths of nine people, and left dozens more injured.

Trump now faces a federal criminal indictment in connection with the violence. But a historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity has likely has delayed the trial in that case until after Election Day, NBC News reported.

Brown told WBUR that his former boss’s record on such issues as the economy and immigration, in addition to his overall fitness, made him better suited than Biden.

"I’ve always felt that what you see is what you get [with Trump],” he said. “It’s an amazing juxtaposition of them being three years apart ... If these are the two people we’re dealing with, I’m voting for President Trump. I’m concerned about the diminished capacity.”