Hillary Clinton delivered a stern message to President Trump after he dared her to run for president in 2020: “Don’t tempt me.”
In a tweet Thursday morning, Trump dredged up the email scandal that dogged Clinton’s White House run in 2016 and suggested she should consider a rematch.
“I think that Crooked Hillary Clinton should enter the race to try and steal it away from Uber Left Elizabeth Warren. Only one condition. The Crooked one must explain all of her high crimes and misdemeanors including how & why she deleted 33,000 Emails AFTER getting ‘C’ Subpoena!” he said.
Roughly five hours later, Clinton replied, “Don’t tempt me. Do your job.”
Don’t tempt me. Do your job.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 8, 2019
The taunt comes after a poll from Rasmussen released this week showed a potential rematch between Trump and Clinton would be “dead even.”
Clinton, a former first lady, senator, and secretary of state, has been back in the spotlight in the past couple weeks while going on a tour with her daughter Chelsea to promote their new book, Gutsy Women, and calling Trump an “illegitimate president” as he faces an impeachment inquiry.
Clinton, 71, has said she will not attempt a third run for president but also stressed she would be a vocal presence as Trump seeks reelection. “I’m going to keep on working and speaking and standing up for what I believe,” she said in March.
Right now, the leaders in the crowded Democratic primary field are former Vice President Joe Biden and Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
Steve Bannon, who was the chief executive of Trump’s campaign in the final stretch of the 2016 election, recently declared that Clinton will run again and is “trying to decide how to fit her way in.”
