A two-word response from Hillary Clinton on running in 2024

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“Haha, nope.”

Those were the words Hillary Clinton used when asked if she would run for president in 2024.

Clinton brushed off rumors that she might run for the White House in the next election cycle in an interview with MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski.

“No, no,” Clinton answered. “But I am certainly going to be active in supporting women running for office, and other candidates who I think should be reelected or elected, both women and men.”

“There’s a big debate going on about the future of democracy,” Clinton said. “I will stay active in all those debates.”

Clinton spoke from Abu Dhabi during the interview, where she is participating in a forum celebrating International Women’s Day.

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Does Clinton intend to run for president again?

According to The Wall Street Journal’s Douglas E. Schoen and Andrew Stein, the answer is yes. According to them, the current government of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris has embarrassingly low approval ratings and that’s why.

“A perfect storm in the Democratic Party is making a once-unfathomable scenario plausible: a political comeback for Hillary Clinton in 2024,” the article begins.

“Several circumstances—President Biden’s low approval rating, doubts over his capacity to run for re-election at 82, Vice President Kamala Harris’s unpopularity, and the absence of another strong Democrat to lead the ticket in 2024—have created a leadership vacuum in the party, which Mrs. Clinton viably could fill,” they assert.

Former New York politician and founder of Democrats for Trump, Schoen, a partner at Schoen Cooperman Research, believes that Clinton is already eyeing the Democratic nomination. Stein, a former politician and co-founder of Democrats for Trump, believes that she is angling for it already.

Aside from being younger and more experienced than Biden, she has a candidacy that differs “from the disorganized and unpopular one the party is currently taking” — including mass spending, expanding government entitlements, eliminating border controls, and overseeing astronomically high inflation rates.

Furthermore, if Democrats lose Congress in the midterm elections – something that appears increasingly likely – Clinton could use those losses to launch a third presidential campaign portraying herself as a “change candidate.”

According to them:

Based on her latest public statements, it’s clear that Mrs. Clinton not only recognizes her position as a potential front-runner but also is setting up a process to help her decide whether or not to run for president again. She recently warned of the electoral consequences in the 2022 midterms if the Democratic Party continues to align itself with its progressive wing and urged Democrats to reject far-left positions that isolate key segments of the electorate.

During an interview with MSNBC, Clinton told Democrats that “careful thinking about what wins elections, and not just in deep-blue districts where a Democrat and a liberal Democrat, or so-called progressive Democrat, is going to win.” She also emphasized the slim Democratic majority in Congress “comes from people who win in much more difficult districts.”

Furthermore, Clinton recently took a subtle shot at the Biden administration and Democrats in Congress in order to distance herself from them: “It means nothing if we don’t have a Congress that will get things done, and we don’t have a White House that we can count on to be sane and sober and stable and productive.”

In the MSNBC interview, Clinton suggested that former President Donald Trump should not be allowed to run for reelection, presumably in reference to the Capitol riot of Jan. 6.

“Hillary Clinton remains ambitious, outspoken, and convinced that if not for Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey’s intervention and Russian interference that she would have won the 2016 election—and she may be right,” Schoen and Stein write in their opinion piece.

“If Democrats want a fighting chance at winning the presidency in 2024, Mrs. Clinton is likely their best option,” they concluded.

Speculation is rife that Clinton will try to come back in 2024.

Clinton Foundation has launched a new program entitled “Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).” Many people are wondering if the Clinton Foundation’s new initiative means the two-time unsuccessful presidential candidate will run for office again in 2024.

An Associated Press report stated that former President Bill Clinton sent a letter to certify that the foundation’s donors are behind the Clinton revival.

In spite of the letter claiming the foundation will focus on COVID, democracy, and climate change, critics point out that these issues have been around for years. “So why the sudden decision to get involved now?” a reporter for BizPac Review asked.

Alternatively, Hillary might need to raise money for a second run at the White House. In 2016, after Hillary Clinton ended up losing the presidential election to Donald Trump, CGI abruptly shut down.

During Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2016, the Clinton Global Initiative ended due to concern it could create a conflict of interest. The summit will take place September 19-21 in New York City.

Source: The Republic Brief