Beto O'Rourke says he still might want to be president. Or vice president. Or a senator.

Beto O'Rourke is almost certainly running for something.

After his narrow loss to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) last year, the former Democratic congressman has been driving around America and presumably considering a 2020 presidential run. In between road trips, he returned home to be honored as "El Pasoan of the Year" — and dropped some hints about his ambitious political future.

At the El Paso Inc. business journal event on Tuesday, O'Rourke confirmed that he's considering running for president and for Sen. John Cornyn's (R-Texas) seat, presumably in 2020, CNN's Eric Bradner reports. O'Rourke would also be open to a vice presidential nod, he added. He'll make a decision by the end of the month, saying he's still "trying to figure out how I can best serve this country," per the Texas Tribune's Patrick Svitek.

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O'Rourke has consistently polled near the top of 2020 Democratic primary polls despite the fact that he hasn't even announced a run yet. He can't take a very long soul-searching drive to figure it out, seeing as there's barely more than a week left in February.