Hillary: I Will 'Probably' Decide Early Next Year Whether To Run In 2016

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

By DYLAN SCOTT Published SEPTEMBER 5, 2014, 2:38 PM EDT

Hillary Clinton will "probably" decide after Jan. 1, 2015, whether she will run for president in 2016, she said Friday.

"I am going to be making a decision around probably after the first of the year," Clinton told the crowd in Mexico City, where she was speaking at a event for a organization founded by billionaire Carlos Slim, according to the Associated Press.

Clinton had previously said in June that it was "probably likely" she wouldn't make an announcement until 2015 and that she would start seriously weighing the possibility after the November midterm elections.

As MSNBC's Alex Seitz-Wald noted, Clinton announced her 2008 campaign on Jan. 20, 2007.

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[SoapBox]

1. *eye roll*

Let the wild posting begin.

[tblue]

2. Who else are we even guessing might run?

I don't think Warren or Sanders want to. We have to have somebody else viable on the bench, but who?

[Tommymac]

8. Senator Sanders has indicated strongly he may run.

All the signs are there. My guess is that he will announce when Hillary does.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/08/11/bernie-sanders-for-president-its-the-longest-of-long-shots-but-that-doesnt-mean-he-wont-do-it/

Bernie Sanders for president? It’s the longest of long shots, but that doesn’t mean he won’t do it.

By Jaime Fuller August 11 


Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders told Yahoo and ABC News that he would have "damn good platform" to run for president in 2016 and criticized the idea of "anoint[ing]" Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee. Given Sanders' comments, we decided to re-post our piece from a few months back looking at exactly what kind of campaign the Socialist Senator from Vermont would run.

If Hillary Rodham Clinton or Jeb Bush or Ted Cruz admitted they were seriously considering starting a presidential campaign, it's hard to overstate how much of a media response that would provoke. When Bernie Sanders announces that he's been thinking about 2016, the same hysteria doesn't hold.

[freshwest]

9. But I want to see him debate others in the primary to pull them closer to what we need.

[Tommymac]

12. Me too. And I think he will.

[NorthCarolina]

14. I don't really understand the "pulling someone to the left" part.

I certainly HOPE Sanders runs, but not because I hope it will "pull Hillary to the left". Rather, I hope he runs so I can vote for him...that's the way elections are won. Does ANYONE really, truly, believe that Sanders can change Hillary's politics by running? That he could really effect a LASTING change in her belief system beyond the campaign? If you want Hillary to be more like Sanders....forget about it....not gonna happen. I wish everyone could simply vote smart for once, and vote for the real deal...that's why I will cast my vote for Sanders.

[LoisB]

15. As will I. Nothing will "pull Hillary to the left".

[LovingA2andMI]

16. That makes two of us.

Voting for Bernie would be a honor and privilege

[area51]

19. +1

As I posted on another thread, Hillary's more suited to run for the repub nomination than the dem nomination.

[NYC_SKP]

3. If SOS Clinton got behind Senator Warren for a run for the 99%, imagine the possibilities!

I think it would be unstoppable, I think tons of current working class Republicans would come over to our side.

I might just be dreaming, but damn that would look good for us "middlers" and all the working class folk and unemployed, too!

Just maybe!

[freshwest]

10. Warren has endorsed Clinton, who was for UHC and argued BO didn't go far enough in 2007. She may be

more in the 99% than is advertised by media and at DU.

We've got a lot of gotcha posting on her that really doesn't express who she is and this is coming from someone who is not a fan personally, but she does support civil rights. And her style and gaffes have turned me off for a long time.

If Warren and Obama both go on the campaign trail for her, I still don't think you'll change your mind as you already said you'd never vote for her. Warren does not want the job, she has a state to protect.

But I expect Sanders will run, and be a great foil to flaws in her positions that we want to change, and be enshrined in the platform. That will only come from grassroots in the states, making that platform. I look forward to seeing Sanders in a debate. Primaries shift national conversation to vital issues.

HRC has a hard road ahead if she does run because the media will keep going after her as they have since 1993. Most pundits on cable got their foot in the door and national presence for going after both of the Clintons. Her on healthcare reform, for which she was accused of pushing communism, trying to destroy families with the expansion of social safety net services and her positions on women and gay rights.

They brainwashed us to repeat whatever Ken Starr wanted in cahoots with the 'vast right wing conspiracy' that she warned us about. She was first to call Cheney as 'Darth Cheney.' And Bill warned us about 'hate radio.' The Clintons were both cognizant of what was happening, just as Obama is.

Bashing her and Bill is still the trendy thing to do twenty years later. Anything will do to malign these powerful Democrats, to make people feel they're being trendy. Always works.

[Deadbeat Republicans]

4. Or she can wait until Sen. Grim McCaskill visit her.

[arcane1]

5. Good! Now let's all STFU about 2016 and elect some Dems in 2014!!!

[blkmusclmachine]

6. +1.

[SoapBox]

7. Oh ya!

Stay focused on the here-and-now, folks!

GOTV 2014

[Reter]

11. Hillary: I Will Announce My Candidacy For President Early Next Year

There, fixed it for her.

[winter is coming]

13. The suspense is terrible. I hope it lasts. n/t

[Kelvin Mace]

17. Will her "friend" Henry Kissinger be her running mate?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hillary-clinton-reviews-henry-kissingers-world-order/2014/09/04/b280c654-31ea-11e4-8f02-03c644b2d7d0_story.html

[yurbud]

20. Wow. That was a shit-load of platitudes and empty talking points

I actually feel stupider for having read it.

[yurbud]

21. Does she believe in a unipolar world with Western banks

Deciding which countries can have a decent standard of living and which wool be plundered and left in our driven into abject poverty?

If not, what have past presidents including Obama done wrong and what specifically will she do differently?

[cantbeserious]

18. No Hillary - No Day - No Way - Go Back To Your Cave Hillary - You Don't Speak For The Middle Class

eom

[Iwillnevergiveup]

22. Oh, O.K., thanks

Meanwhile, we've got a damn important midterm.

[yurbud]

23. where? our semester just started.