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Isn’t She Running

You remember Hillary Clinton. She has ran for president twice and won the popular vote the second time. She was our 67th Secretary of State. She was also the First Lady for 8 years. Apparently those two technical losses on her side has made her call it quits, Hillary Clinton, said officially on Monday what has been unofficially clear for months: She is not running for president again in 2020. Ahead of the 2020 election, she has been holding private meetings with many of the current and potential presidential candidates, including Senator Kamala Harris and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., as they sought counsel from her even before she formally ruled out another run. Four female senators — Ms. Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren — and one congresswoman, Tulsi Gabbard, have already jumped into the Democratic primary campaign. The glut of female candidates is widely seen as an outgrowth of Mrs. Clinton’s own nomination in 2016. Mrs. Clinton, 71, is still younger than some Democratic candidates who are either running (such as Senator Bernie Sanders, who is 77) or considering runs (Mr. Biden, 76, and the former New York City mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, 77). But many in the crowded field of more than a dozen candidates are already pushing to install a younger generation of leadership for the party. In the television interview, Mrs. Clinton signaled that she planned to remain a presence on the political scene. “I want to be sure that people understand I’m going to keep speaking out,” she said. “I’m not going anywhere

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