Hillary Clinton.Photo: Albert Cara/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
While she says that Democrats winning the next presidential election is “the most important thing,” don’t expectHillary Clintonto launch another campaign.
In a new interviewwith theFinancialTimes, the former secretary of state said it’s “out of the question” that she would run for the presidency in 2024, adding that she anticipates throwing her support behind PresidentJoe Biden.
“First of all, I expect Biden to run,” she told the outlet. “He certainly intends to run. It would be very disruptive to challenge that.”
The 74-year-old also voiced her opinion that, in order to win more elections, Democrats should focus on issues that “help you win,” rather than those that only affect some segments of the population.
“Some positions are so extreme on both the right and the left that they retreat to their corners. … Politics should be the art of addition not subtraction,” she said.
Touching on the last presidential election, which former PresidentDonald Trump(whom Clinton ran against in 2016) lost to Biden, the former first lady said shebelieves Trump knows that he lost— despite his continued insistence otherwise.
“I also believe in peaceful succession and transition and all of that … That tells you everything you need to know about Republican strategy for 2024. Even in his reptilian brain, Trump has to know that he lost this time. He refuses to accept it because it wasn’t supposed to happen,” she said.
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Elsewhere in her conversation with theFinancial Times, Clinton said she believes Trump will run again for the presidency if he can — adding that the outcome of that, or any, election could prove disastrous for the country.
“We are standing on the precipice of losing our democracy, and everything that everybody else cares about then goes out the window,” she said. “Look, the most important thing is to win the next election. The alternative is so frightening that whatever does not help you win should not be a priority.”
“I think that could be the end of our democracy,” she said onSunday TODAY with Willie Geist. “Not to be too pointed about it, but I want people to understand that this could be a make-or-break point. If he or someone of his ilk were once again to be elected president, especially if he had a Congress that would do his bidding, you will not recognize our country.”
source: people.com
