O'Malley pokes at Hillary Clinton's inevitability for president

Former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley questioned whether Hillary Rodham Clinton is on a glide path to the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.

"Most years, there's the inevitable front-runner and that inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable," O'Malley said Wednesday on MSNBC's Morning Joe. "So I think you're going to see a robust conversation in the Democratic Party about how we restore our middle class and middle-class opportunity."

O'Malley said he will decide this spring whether to make his own 2016 presidential bid. He's been been traveling to New Hampshire and other early presidential states, helping Democrats across the country with their campaigns, but early polls show Clinton with a huge lead.

Asked about a New York Times story published Thursday, O'Malley seemed to brush off the headline: "Democrats See No Choice but Hillary Clinton in 2016."

"Maybe that's the way it is today," he said.

If he jumps into the 2016 race, O'Malley vowed he would be in it to win it. "I would be running not only to win, but to govern well," O'Malley said.