Is Hillary Clinton staging a comeback?
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Hillary Clinton is a regular target on conservative nightly news. Her interventions in down-ballot races and public appearances are becoming more frequent. Her popularity within the party is sky-high. You’d be forgiven for thinking that it all feels very familiar.
After years of keeping a relatively low profile, the Democratic grandee who nearly became America’s first woman president is staging a political comeback. After two failed efforts, there is even talk of another run for president in 2024.
The former secretary of state returned to the national stage on Thursday as she spoke at the New York State Democratic convention, ostensibly in support of Kathy Hochul’s nomination for governor. What followed was not a speech for New York, but to the nation — and it was aimed at a familiar foe.
“I know many of us hoped that defeating Trump would start to heal our divisions, that maybe, just maybe, the madness would break. But now it should be clear to all of us that the struggle for unity and democracy is far from over,” she said.
“It is one thing to have political disagreements, those are natural and healthy. But it is an entirely different thing altogether to lose a shared sense of truth, facts and reality itself.”
It was yet another reminder, if one were needed, that she and her party have been fighting the same battle for more than five years: How to deal with the unique threat posed by Donald Trump. Ironically, it is Mr Trump’s refusal to accept his loss to Joe Biden, and his promotion of conspiracy theories about a stolen election, that has drawn Ms Clinton back into the fray.
Given that Mr Biden will be 82 when 2024 comes around, and amid swirling doubts about the viability of his vice president, Kamala Harris, many have wondered aloud who could step in to take the nomination for the presidency should he decide not to run.
A recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal suggested that should Democrats lose control of Congress in 2022, Ms Clinton “can use the party’s loss as a basis to run for president again, enabling her to claim the title of ‘change candidate.’”
Based on her latest public statements, it’s clear that Mrs Clinton not only recognizes her position as a potential front-runner but also is setting up a process to help her decide whether or not to run for president again,” the op-ed, written by pollster Douglas E Schoen and Andrew Stein, continued.
Such predictions are not being taken too seriously within the party.
Speaking in December, the former secretary of state made a plea for moderation in the Democratic Party’s message as a way to win votes from independents.
“I think that it is a time for some careful thinking about what wins elections, and not just in deep-blue districts where a Democrat and a liberal Democrat, or so-called progressive Democrat, is going to win,” she said.
I guess we are doomed to regurgitating the 2016 election for the foreseeable future.
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