Is Hillary Clinton running for president?

(The Hill) – Former secretary of state and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Tuesday mentioned she won’t run for president once more.

“No, no,” Clinton said when requested by CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell she would ever run for a second time.

“But I’m going to do all the pieces I can to guarantee that we’ve got a president who respects our democracy and the rule of regulation and upholds our establishments,” Clinton continued.

Clinton mentioned former President Trump wouldn’t slot in that class and that if he runs once more “he needs to be soundly defeated.”

“It ought to begin within the Republican Party,” Clinton mentioned. “Grow a spine, stand as much as this man.”

Trump, who defeated Clinton within the 2016 presidential election, has been teasing one other run for president in 2024 and polls present he has shot of clinching the Republican nomination.

Clinton has said that she would endorse President Biden if he runs for reelection the identical 12 months — which has repeatedly mentioned he plans to do — saying that he can be “the particular person almost definitely to win.”

“Joe Biden beat in an enormous landslide victory within the well-liked vote Donald Trump. I believe that claims so much,” Clinton mentioned in a dialog with NBC News anchor Yamiche Alcindor in late June.

On CBS, Clinton shot down any comparisons between her use of a personal electronic mail server whereas serving as secretary of state and the current discovery of categorized supplies at Trump’s Florida dwelling, saying the 2 conditions are “actually totally different” from each other.

“I believe it’s a extremely totally different comparability to what’s occurring right here,” Clinton mentioned of her personal skirmish with the FBI in contrast with Trump’s present state of affairs. “When it seems that the justice division and the FBI have been extremely affected person, quiet, cautious, till they lastly apparently thought that nationwide safety was at stake.”