You’re laughing and shaking your head, right?
Stop….
He thinks Hillary Clinton has been running a stealth (up to now) warm – up effort to keep herself involved with Democrats that are aiming against Donald Trump on a national level…
Goodwin believes that with a wide open Democratic 2020 Presidential nomination field less then two years from when we would know the nomiee?
Hillary Clinton IS getting herself positioned for a third try at becoming the first woman President ….
Goodwin COULD be dreaming…..
Or?
Maybe not?
I’m sure Clinton feels she won the last time….
If she can just get her state’s right?
With the Democratic Party locked in a battle between its far left wing and its far, far left wing, no single leader has emerged to unite it. Clinton is trying to play that role by being a mother hen to the fledgling activists drawn to politics by their hatred of Trump.
If they were active in 2016, most probably supported Bernie Sanders in his primary challenge to Clinton. But by helping to fund them now, she is putting them in her debt for later.
Ah, but will she need their support later? Is she really going to make a third run for the White House?
Not long ago, I told a group of friends, all liberal Dems, that I believed she was keeping open the possibility of a rematch against Trump, and might already have decided to run.
It was unanimous — they were horrified. “I would not give her a single cent,” one man, formerly a big donor to Clinton, said emphatically.
Their reasons are no surprise: Her moment has passed, she was a terrible candidate and her endless claims of victimhood are tiring rather than inspiring. It’s time to find new blood.
Those assessments are unassailable, and certainly are shared by the 20 or so Dems lining up to take their shot at the nomination.
Moreover, there isn’t any clamoring for another Clinton run in Hollywood or other leftist hotbeds. They want a new blockbuster, not a sequel to failure.
So she’s toast, right? Maybe.
On the other hand, the odds are zero that she is playing community organizer just to be a kingmaker. When it comes to money and power, the Clintons assume charity begins at home.
Here’s how I believe she sees the playing field, and why she can’t be ignored…..
More…..
Note…
Up to now she has NOT been included in 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination early polls….
In those polls?
Joe Biden leads and beats Trump by the widest margin….
I’ll speculate that the pollsters are reseting their next questions in their 2020 Dem Presidential polls to include Clinton….
If?
If she comes in at 1, 2, 3 in these early polls?
Hmmmmm????
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Please, God, no.
He, he, he….
Hey DSD?
Haven’t you read about ALL the WOMEN Democrat’s running for office in America these days?
I’m SURE CG will be Happy to read this post….
I understand Fox news cut from the kids trapped in the cave to feature this story….
It has also broke on Newsweek, NY Post, AOL, Daily Mail, Real Clear Politics, Newsmax, Salon and just about EVERYPLACE Else….
Wait for the polls….
THAT will be telling….
The media would just go batshit crazy for a rematch if Trump was still in office in November of 2020…
Hillary has kept herself in the news more than most failed candidates, so it does beg the question “why?” I think that she probably has entertained the idea of running in 2020. If she does run, her path to the nomination will be harder in 202o than in 2016. And that is how it should be. Because if she ran like she ran in 2016, she would lose to Trump again – and that is not acceptable.
I agree Z….
I know this is a big story on FOX News but I think it’s much ado about nothing.
Romney, Kerry and Gore also were rumored to be plotting to take another stab at the nomination. They all looked at it and stepped back.
As Zreebs noted there will be a lot more competition for the 2020 nomination than Hillary faced in 2016. I’m almost certain Clinton will survey the field and come to the conclusion that her day as a national candidate has passed.
A year ago, a major pollster (don’t recall who) did a favorability survey on Hillary and found that her favorability ratings had not improved from where they were in November 2016. Perhaps they have improved in the last year. But if not, she should step aside.
Well Z
We know she doesn’t like campaigning and we know why….
She BEAT Trump in the popular vote by THREE MILLON or so
Nobody running can boast that
It’s the year of the woman Democratic voter, eh?
Frankly?
Wherever the black Democratic vote goes is gonna be where the choice ends up..
You’re right
It’s too early
But in 6 months , even 4?
The 2020 nomination race believes in earnest
And if Hillary even seriously hints at running?
She WILL BE a BIG factor
Biden remains my choice
But as in 2016
I’d vote for Clinton for President instead of Trump or Pence….
Nobody cares about Hillary winning the popular vote.
She DID….
The last losing nominee to make a run for their party’s nomination in the next election was Hubert Humphrey in 1972. McGovern ran again but not until 1984. Ford considered it in 1980 but backed off.
The last time a defeated presidential candidate was nominated in the next election was Adlai Stevenson.
After losing in an electoral vote landslide to Eisenhower in 1952,Stevenson again won the nomination in 1956 and lost again in an electoral landslide.
In fairness to Stevenson ,likely no other Democratic candidate would have done any better.p against the iconic Eisenhower.Amazingly though,in studying the 56 campaign, one finds that lots of Democrats felt Stevenson stood a pretty good chance.
In my view, this whole thing is probably nothing more than Michael Goodwin looking for a story to run on a hot day in New York.I don’t see Hillary running again.
No doubt a long shoT….
But stranger things have happened
I’ll wait for the first round of polls with her name in them….
THAT will be more telling
I remember watching a rerun of Happy Days centered around the 1956 elevtion and Richie Cunningham thought Stevenson had a good chance.
Some Democrats wanted Stevenson to run again in 1960. And to add more pop culture references a scene from Annie Hall revolved aroubnd Woody Allen’s character Alfie Singer being a supporter of Adlai for 1960.
I think that is a misleading stat Scott. For example, of course Mondale and McGovern weren’t going to run again in 4 years after carrying only 2 states between them.
Nixon won in 1968 & 1972 after losing (very narrowly) 8 years earlier.
The only other modern major-party example was Thomas Dewey (R) in 1944 & 1948.
There is a cluster of other examples, with varying results, but they’re all from the 18th and 19th centuries, for example:
Jefferson 1796 (L), 1800 (W) & 1804 (W)
Charles Pinckney (Fed.), 1804 (L) & 1808 (L)
Jackson 1824 (won popular plurality), 1828 (W) & 1832 (W)
Wm Henry Harrison (Fed.), 1836 (L) & 1840 (W)
Van Buren 1836 (W), 1840 (L), 1848 (lost as Free Soil candidate)
Fillmore 1848 (lost Whig nomination), 1856 (lost as American Party candidate)
Cleveland 1884 (W), 1888 (won popular plurality), 1892 (W)
Former Clinton aide Philippe Reines told Politico that he thinks it is “unlikely” that Hillary Clinton would mount a 2020 bid, but cautioned that it was not an impossibility.
Said Reines: “It’s somewhere between highly unlikely and zero, but it’s not zero.”
Politicalwire…