One would think that twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton would be content to stay out of politics.
Yet, it appears that she just can’t keep away. Earlier this month, Clinton gave a speech to a progressive political action group about the importance of “defending our democracy” against both internal and external attacks. “Voter suppression” will majorly impact the 2020 race, she announced.
Progressive pep talk
Clinton spoke at an event for Arena Academy New York, a political action group which recruits and trains young progressives to become campaign staffers and candidates for state and federal political offices.
Clinton noted how she supported the group with donations and political connections through her own activist organization, Onward Together.
“We knew that if we didn’t jump in quickly and support the energy that was just exploding, that uh, that we might miss an opportunity,” she said.
“And as I’ve watched what the Arena has done, as well as the other groups that we support, I’m even more encouraged and optimistic,” she continued. “But I have to say, quickly, also realistic about what we’re up against.”
What progressive Democrats are “up against” in 2020, according to Clinton, are such things as alleged voter suppression, blatant propaganda, shenanigans with electronic election equipment, and, of course, that old stand-by excuse from 2016, foreign interference — not to mention Trump himself — all of which Clinton claimed will be markedly “worse” in 2020 than in 2016.
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In the speech, Clinton portrayed herself as something of a king- or queen-maker whose wise advice has been sought out by a majority of the candidates running for the Democratic nomination at this time.
“I’ve met with, or talked to — oh, I don’t know — 18 or so of the candidates running and I’ve told all of them, uh, that, based on my own experience, um, you could not only win the nomination, um, you could win the popular vote but, but not get the job because of all these other forces and activities at work,” she said, highlighting the left’s ongoing frustration at how Clinton won the nationwide popular vote — which is meaningless — but lost the all-important and constitutionally mandated Electoral College vote in 2016.
Furthermore, ignoring the fundamental fact that the United States is a representative Constitutional Republic and not a direct democracy, Clinton implored the crowd to realize that in addition to promoting and protecting their progressive values, they are also “defending our democracy against attacks from inside and outside of our own country.”
Is she going to run again?
Though the speech was intended to encourage progressive activists and candidates, Clinton’s speech came across more like a “stump speech,” The American Mirror’s Kyle Olson noted.
While a third Clinton run seems highly unlikely, Clinton has played coy when asked if she has any plans to run for office again, saying she’d “like to be president” while not ruling anything out.
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