Hillary Clinton.
2016 Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton may be considering a 2020 presidential run. The Hill. A CNN reporter cited three anonymous sources that Clinton was talking about a presidential run with her friends. She has not ruled out a run and was encouraged by the Rodger Stone indictment. However, no preliminary work has been done and she has not made any official announcement.
My Comment:
This doesn't surprise me at all. Hillary Clinton is many things but she is not a person who will throw in the towel, even when she really should. I always thought a 2020 run was in the cards even though she was defeated quite spectacularly in 2016. She just wants it so bad.
That being said, there is a very high chance of this being fake news. For one thing, the original report was on CNN, a news network now famous for getting major stories totally wrong (which is why I didn't link to them directly). Even worse, they cited anonymous sources which are a sure sign of fake news. It's very possible that we will find out in a couple of days that the story is bunk.
On the other hand, it is Hillary Clinton we are talking about. She is a master of media manipulation and I doubt "her" network, CNN, would report this without it being true. Indeed, I am sure that she has some computer tech somewhere who wrote an algorithm which said this was the best way to test the waters.
She would have quite a bit of competition though. Bernie Sanders, her old primary foe, is running as well. And Kamala Harris kicked off her presidential campaign today. And Joe Biden is the front runner in most of the polls. The Democratic field is wide and Clinton is not alone in her ambitions to unseat President Donald Trump.
I don't see Clinton winning though. Indeed, I don't think she would have even been the candidate in 2016 if it wasn't for the interference that the DNC ran for her. She lost in 2016 in a landslide electoral defeat, despite winning the popular vote (supposedly) and I doubt that the DNC will want her to try again.
The 2016 election was Clinton's to lose and she did almost everything in her power to do so. She famously called Trump supporters deplorable and irredeemable, failed to campaign in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania and was greatly hurt by the DNC cheating on the Democratic primaries. She also defined by her scandals including the illegal e-mail scheme she had along with her corrupt foundation.
I also wonder who Clinton is supposed to appeal to. The neoliberals can just go with Joe Biden or Elizabeth Warren, the economic leftists will go to Bernie and the "woke" racist left will go with someone like Kamala Harris. That doesn't leave a niche for Clinton, and even if there was a place for her, why would they choose someone who has already proven that she can't beat President Trump?
Of course, the best case scenario that I can envision is that the DNC still wants Clinton and will screw over the much wider Democratic field. Doing so would further engage the economic leftist faction of the party and would likely make the racist left furious as well. That would mean that nobody would turn out for her and President Trump would win in a landslide. I would say that even the DNC wouldn't be that stupid and would try to run a candidate that has some kind of appeal, but if that was true they wouldn't have run Clinton in 2016...
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