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Oprah’s speech ignites frenzied US speculation

TV mogul Oprah Winfrey at the Golden Globe Award ceremony on Monday, Jan 8. [Photo: Courtesy]

United States media mogul Oprah Winfrey could be well headed  for the presidency. The United States was ablaze on Monday with speculation that the billionaire talk show queen might be nurturing White House ambitions after an impassioned Golden Globes speech.

Winfrey had barely heralded a "new day" following a sexual harassment watershed, before calls snowballed for one of America's most famous women, a self-made tycoon born into poverty, to run for the highest office in the free world.

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