Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, considering a 2016 presidential bid, made a big splash Friday when he called on Hillary Rodham Clinton to quit the race over her financial woes.
“As of today, I call on Hillary Clinton to withdraw from the race. Withdraw from the race,” he told MSNBC’s Luke Russert on “The Briefing.”
Gilmore, who recently told Secrets that he is winning support in key states like New Hampshire as he nears a final decision to make his second presidential try, said that Clinton should drop out because she isn’t dealing well with the current financial questions.
And he said that Clinton shouldn’t have been secretary of state because of her financial interests in the family’s Clinton Foundation, which raises money from overseas interests and governments and also spends money on overseas efforts.
“This is the story. Hillary Clinton’s Foundation, together with Bill Clinton, has taken hundreds of millions of dollars from overseas interests. She should never have been secretary of state under those circumstances,” said Gilmore, who would run on an anti-tax and Reagan-esque foreign policy platform.
“She should drop out of the race and the reason is because the people of the United States don’t have confidence in our democratic system, they think it is all rigged, they think it is all set up, they think it’s all big money. She is the perfect candidate to continue that cynicism,” he said.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
