Hillary Clinton says ‘NO’ when asked if she’ll run for president again in 2024 and slams
Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton laughed and said ‘no’ when asked Tuesday if she would consider running for the White House again.
‘No, no,’ Clinton said on Morning Joe between chuckles. ‘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.’
The former secretary of State also tore into Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying he was ‘acting out his own insecurities’ on the people of Ukraine.
Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton laughed and said ‘no’ when asked Tuesday if she would consider running for the White House again
The former secretary of State also tore into Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying he was ‘acting out his own insecurities’ on the people of Ukraine
‘It’s so heartbreaking to me that Putin is acting out his own insecurities, his own resentments and grievances against the people of Ukraine,’ Clinton told Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski.
‘Waging a war against a smaller state that is totally unprovoked as we have seen, really tells us everything we need to know about Putin,’ she continued.
Brzezinski asked Clinton how she thought Putin’s invasion of Ukraine would end.
‘I don’t know how it ends, but I think that probably the person who was most surprised that it is still going on is Vladimir Putin,’ she said.
‘The level of defense and determination that the Ukrainian people are showing, starting with their president, President Zelensky, going all the way down to, you know, grandmothers and young women taking up arms for the first time to defend their families and their communities – is tragic but inspiring,’ Clinton continued.
‘And I hope that the world will stay with Ukraine while they try to protect their homeland, and all that they hold dear, including freedom and democracy,’ the former secretary of State added.
She also pointed out that even though the war is happening ‘far away.’
‘It is a war taht will affect what kind of world we’re going to live in,’ Clinton pointed out. ‘And that’s why I hope everybody understands why we should be supporting the Ukrainian people going forward.’
As Tuesday marked International Women’s Day, Brzezinski asked Clinton what was motivating the women of Ukraine to be so resilient.
‘I think first of all, it is shock,’ Clinton answered.
‘You know, two weeks ago, these people, especially these women, they were taking care of their babies, they were planning their weddings, they were going to work, they were continuting their education,’ she said. ‘And because a leader of a much larger country on their border decided that he wanted to stamp out their way of life, they are now fleeing for safety or standing up against that military force.’
She suggested that because the Ukrainians were fighting ‘not for an ideology, not for a dictator,’ but for their way of life, they’ve been able to hold Putin’s forces off.
NO REMATCH: Hillary Clinton laughed at the idea that she would run for the White House again. Former President Donald Trump, who bested Clinton, but was beat by President Joe Biden, has suggested he might jump in the 2024 race
‘And you can at least as of now, you know, stop this evil force from just wiping you out and ending the way that you had thought about what life would be for you and future generations,’ she said.
Clinton called it resilience ‘born out of danger and pain.’
The Clintons have been wading back into politics as the November midterm elections approach, but as she said Tuesday morning, is not expected to run for the White House a third time.
Conservatives, however, don’t seem to be able to believe Clinton’s political ambitions are done.
At the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando late last month, attendees who participated in the event’s annual straw poll said that Clinton was the most likely Democratic nominee in 2024, despite Democratic President Joe Biden being in office.
Of those polled, 22.1 per cent said Clinton would be the Democrats’ 2024 nominee, while 16.8 per cent said it would be former First Lady Michelle Obama – who’s never expressed a desire to pursue elected office.
In third place, came Biden with 13.6 per cent of the vote.
Hillary Clinton was voted the most likely to be the Democrats’ 2024 presidential nominee by attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference in late February in Orlando, Florida. President Joe Biden, a Democrat, came in third place