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Here's Why Hillary Is Running Again in 2020

2018-07-07

[American Thinker] That's right: Hillary Clinton is running for president again in 2020. She has actually ramped up her campaign since her defeat in 2016! From her Twitter feed to university speeches to appearances abroad ‐ from Ireland to Australia to India ‐ the "I'm with her" campaign continues. The message remains the same: Donald Trump is racist and sexist, and his supporters are deplorable. Hillary also continues to preach that she won the 2016 popular vote by 3,000,000 votes, but because of the electoral college (that damn Constitution thing) and RussiaRussiaRussia, she was robbed of her rightful prize and place in history.

Her Path to the Nomination

Hillary has a highly plausible path to the Democratic Party nomination, something no other potential Democrat candidate for president can say. In the primaries, Hillary Clinton's name recognition and loyal voters would earn her an easy 25% of the vote, while the anti-Hillary vote would split among as many as ten other candidates at about 5-10% each. This is not dissimilar to what Trump accomplished on the Republican side in 2016. With a solid base of supporters, Trump was able to win primary after primary while the others split the vote. Each time someone dropped out, Trump picked up about half of his supporters, with the other half disbursed among the other candidates. This is a realistic path for Hillary to gain the Democrat nomination, and it is no doubt irresistible to her.

Hillary is the only potential Democrat with big money-raising potential and an existing fundraising mechanism. That mechanism has been in place for 30 years! Hillary also has as much as $1 billion in Clinton Foundation donations stashed away for just such a rainy day. You didn't really think all that Russian oligarch money was sent to hungry children in Haiti, did you?

Hillary knows that the MSM will not only not criticize her for running in 2020, but celebrate her campaign because "she has unfinished business." Hillary also knows that the MSM will repeat her talking points ad nauseam, as in "the 2016 election was stolen by the Russians" and "she's doing this for women to break the glass ceiling" as they serve up $10 billion in free earned media. In addition, MSM journalists want jobs in the Hillary Clinton administration and won't risk her famous wrath if she wins.

Posted by:Besoeker

#21 I don't think she can help herself. She feels that she is entitied, and destined to be the POTUS.

Plus there is all that power and graft. She's addicted to it and just can't help herself.

Posted by: CrazyFool 2018-07-07 22:07

#20 Really, there's no way that scag is running again.

Posted by: DooDahMan 2018-07-07 20:28

#19 And the "Weekend At Bernie's" scenario can only work for Sanders.

Seems to work with Pelosi's office.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-07-07 20:20

#18 Not to be morbid, but who knows if she'll even be alive then?

Only the good die young.

Posted by: Besoeker 2018-07-07 19:43

#17 if theres a buck to made she'll run. also, to not run signals the end of the CNN. the groupies will move on to the next democrat messiah.

Posted by: brerrabbit 2018-07-07 19:07

#16 She's heavily invested in popcorn?

Posted by: Silentbrick 2018-07-07 18:22

#15 Not to be morbid, but who knows if she'll even be alive then?

And the "Weekend At Bernie's" scenario can only work for Sanders.

Posted by: charger 2018-07-07 14:34

#14 TW - that requires a big laughing emoji.

Posted by: 3dc 2018-07-07 13:37

#13 Mrs. Clinton would lose even more badly next time — current polls show President Trump picking up increasing support among Blacks, Hispanics, and Millennials, according to what I’ve seen recently. But it’s early days, and Clinton is a familiar name at a time when no one else has thrown their hat in the ring. It remains to be seen whether she will admit her health is too bad to run, leaving oxygen for the epic fight between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden for the nomination.

Posted by: trailing wife 2018-07-07 11:57

#12 Anti-Hillary signs and t-shirts should center on a bottle of booze as a logo. Brand her as an entitled drunk.

Posted by: ruprecht 2018-07-07 11:11

#11 Helps explain why Trump would pardon Blago. That'll stir the pot...

Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-07-07 09:07

#10 @ #4 -- Definitely not "Gemütlichkeit"!

Posted by: DooDahMan 2018-07-07 08:26

#9 She gonna have the DNC fix the primaries for her again?

What will Lizziewatha and Kammie Harris and Uncle Joe have to say about that?

Posted by: AlanC 2018-07-07 08:18

#8 She's still ~~drinking~~ eating the Kummerspeck

Posted by: Frank G 2018-07-07 07:54

#7 She blew through a Billion dollars in her last campaign, and still lost. Anyone giving her anymore money would have to be crazy.

Posted by: Betty Hatfield5124 2018-07-07 06:50

#6 Hopefully yes.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-07-07 04:14

#5 How can I then return in happy plight,
That am debarr'd the benefit of rest?
When day's oppression is not eased by night,
But day by night, and night by day, oppress'd?
And each, though enemies to either's reign,
Do in consent shake hands to torture me;
The one by toil, the other to complain
How far I toil, still farther off from thee.
I tell the day, to please them thou art bright
And dost him grace when clouds do blot the heaven:
So flatter I the swart-complexion'd night,
When sparkling stars twire not thou gild'st the even.
But day doth daily draw my sorrows longer
And night doth nightly make grief's strength
seem stronger. -The Bard-

Posted by: Skidmark 2018-07-07 02:38

#4 Is there a German word that means "the simultaneous feeling of glee and horror"?
(and don't say 'schizophrenia')

Posted by: SteveS 2018-07-07 02:11

#3 I doubt it. She might have a political path to the nomination. However, barring a major medical breakthrough she won't be healthy enough to be a credible candidate.

In fact, if she'd been elected in 2016 I think her Presidency would have turned into a reprise of the last Soviet GenSeks' agonizing tenures.

Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2018-07-07 01:56

#2 (voice of Albanian Guy in 'Taken') - good luck...

Posted by: Raj 2018-07-07 01:52

#1 Which just means that there will be no ramifications from all of her shenanigans (Clinton Foundation, Seth Rich, Arkancides, etc., etc.) despite all of the "bombshell" utterances from the wind bag chumps on Capitol Hill and the Internet.

Posted by: DooDahMan 2018-07-07 01:04

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