Rumors are spreading that Hillary Clinton is considering the idea of announcing again for President in 2020.
That would be a terrible idea, and would divide the Democratic Party, when it needs to move on from the disappointments of 2016.
Hillary Clinton is very talented, smart, and knowledgeable, and it is true that she won the national popular vote by 2.85 million votes in 2016, more than many Presidents, including John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter.
But she was unable to win over the white working class vote of the Midwest, and nothing we know of her would indicate that she can magically win over that voting bloc in 2020.
It is tragic that she lost the Electoral College, but just as with Al Gore after 2000, it is time to move on, as there are so many other talented, smart, capable potential nominees in the Democratic Party, who could carry the mantle of the party into November 2020.
So, please, Hillary Clinton, campaign for others for 2020, make speeches, write books, and enjoy Chelsea’s children, now soon to have a third child. Even Chelsea has said a blessing of the loss was that her mom had a chance to spent more time with her grandchildren.
Enough is enough, and it is time to move on from the Age of the Clintons.
‘If you look at the map of the United States, there’s all that red in the middle where Trump won.
“I win the coast, I win, you know, Illinois and Minnesota, places like that.
“I won the places that represent two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product.
“So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward.â€
—Hillary Clinton, India Today Conclave 2018 in Mumbai, March 2018
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This shows us that Hillary Clinton—who failed to hold four of the Top 10 populous states (with its combined +83 electoral votes, plus the 2012/2016 Republican holds of 206 electoral votes, being enough to elect Donald Trump)—was never worthy of being president of the United States.
Agreed. I don’t want to see a repeat of 2016.