Hillary 2020? Clinton says she’d still ‘like to be president’, sending mixed signals on another run
- Clinton suggested that she would consider her future in US politics after the November midterm elections
Hillary Clinton appeared to leave the door open to another presidential bid during comments made during a podcast taped over the weekend.
Asked by Recode’s Kara Swisher about a 2020 bid, Clinton initially said “no” and then paused, before saying “no” again.
But after Swisher noted the pause, Clinton didn’t sound so sure.
“Well, I’d like to be president,” she said at a taping Friday in front of a live audience in New York. “I think, hopefully, when we have a Democrat in the Oval Office in January of 2021, there’s going to be so much work to be done.”
After asserting that President Donald Trump has done a great deal of damage to the international standing of the United States, Clinton said, “The work would be work that I feel very well prepared for, having been at the Senate for eight years, having been a diplomat in the State Department, and it’s just going to be a lot of heavy lifting.”