It’s clear that some in the press are very keen on seeing another Clinton run for office, but you can’t force excitement.
Stop trying to make Chelsea Clinton happen.
The former first daughter appeared Tuesday on CBS News’ “This Morning,” where she was – surprise, surprise – asked about running for office.
“Is there anybody else in the Clinton household thinking about running, and ‘by anybody,’ I mean you,” Gayle King asked at the midpoint of an extremely soft-focus interview. “I feel deja vu with your mom all over again. Your running?”
“No,” said Clinton.
“That’s the question,” King added, not citing who, exactly, is asking this.
Clinton responded, “I clearly don’t agree with our president, but I’m definitely not the right person to run to defeat him in 2020. So right now, the answer is no. But I think we all need to be asking ourselves that question periodically, and I hope a lot of young people will use the election to think, ‘Wow, should I run for public office? Am I the right person for a given job, whether it’s the school board or a senator?”
Her hosts kept after it, noting that she has been very active recently on Twitter. Surely she must have something big planned, they suggested.
Clinton again shot down the will-she-run speculation.
No one is asking for this.
In terms of potential 2020 Democratic candidates, voters have their sights set elsewhere, including on Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
