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Hillary Clinton announces 2028 presidential campaign..!?

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by Frank Holmes, reporter

Like mosquitoes after a spring thaw, recurring nightmares after a spicy dinner, or cancer after a brief remission, Hillary Clinton is back in the political limelight.

And her latest move has set tongues wagging that the two-time presidential loser is preparing to launch a third presidential campaign in 2028.

The talk ramped up when Clinton accepted an offer to headline the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s annual spring fundraising dinner, the McIntyre-Shaheen Dinner, in Nahshua on April 25.

New Hampshire famously hosted the first-in-the-nation presidential primary. It’s one of the key destinations for anyone hoping to test the presidential waters, something the Clintons have never been shy about exploring.

On the surface, her speech at the $200-a-plate affair paid tribute to retiring Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen. But Mrs. Clinton dropped enough zingers to stir speculation she might be considering another presidential race 20 years after her first primary defeat at the hands of Barack Obama.

During the speech, Clinton referred to herself as a “recovering politician,” the kind who might always relapse.

Then she thanked Granite State voters for powering her to victory in the state’s 2008 Democratic primary over Barack Obama. (Those inside her campaign believed Obama cheated to defeat her but kept their concerns mostly private.)

Hillary Clinton even previewed a possible line of attack against the Trump administration in the 2026 and 2028 elections.

“He rolled the dice with Iran with no plan, and lost,” she said, referring to President Trump’s career-threatening, unpopular war in the Middle East.

Attendees called it “a strong speech,” and that might be all the encouragement the most ambitious woman in politics needs to return to “public service.”

It was her first speech in New Hampshire since 2019, around the time she hinted that there needed to be “a rematch” between her and President Trump.

She’s not a forgiving woman, and she wants revenge and power.

True, another Democratic primary might be an uphill battle for Clinton, who would be 81 years old on election day 2028—the same age as Joe Biden in November 2024. And critics point out that a haggard-looking Hillary recently denied she harbored hopes of returning to the White House.

“Are you thinking about running again?” asked Sandra Maischberger of the German show Tagesschau in February.

“No, no, I’m not,” replied the former secretary of State.

But Hillary issued the exact same denial before every presidential run, even implying that she would never run for president while campaigning her first U.S. Senate seat from New York in 2000.

It may shock some reporters that politicians sometimes lie, even ones named Clinton. And they may have missed what she said next.

Hillary Clinton also immediately added, “I think we’ll have some very good candidates” in 2028. “Some of them were at Munich.”

The media noted that one of the fiercest, sharpest, and most active debaters at the 2026 Munich Security Conference happened to be Hillary Rodham Clinton.

“We have a good bench,” she said.

Cognitively, she’s nowhere near the state of Joe Biden. She tangled with Republicans in the recent Jeffrey Epstein hearings and came out in a draw, something Biden could never do.

To deepen the mystery, the Clintons also appear to be engaging in another ritual they always celebrated before running for office: taking donations.

Investigative journalist Paul Sperry of Real Clear Investigations pointed out last August, “After a long hiatus, Hillary Clinton is suddenly soliciting supporters for donations in a new e-blast from her nonprofit Onward Together (which) she formed in 2017, including a long sappy letter from Hillary. The email provides a NY P.O. Box to send money plus a link to ActBlue,” the controversial Democratic fundraising platform accused of violating U.S. election law by funneling foreign donations to liberal Democrats.

The Clintons raised sucking up legally questionable foreign cash to an art form by taking donations from Buddhist monasteries and forming the Clinton Foundation to receive donations ahead of Hillary’s previous presidential runs.

The Clinton fundraising apparatus ran dry after her 2016 loss to President Trump. “Why is Hillary Clinton suddenly raising $$ again after 8 years? Legal defense fund? 2028 run?” asked Sperry last August?

Why did she start scheduling politically incendiary speeches that she knew would start campaign rumors swirling shortly afterwards?

“SHE’S RUNNING” posted former senior Trump adviser Jason Miller.

Whenever America’s Eva Peron starts hinting about a return to the palace, the money keeps rolling in.

But her campaign has hit a snag before it even got off the ground.

Democratic Party leaders “are concerned the Epstein scandal is dirtying up Hillary ahead of her planned 2028 presidential run, which is apparent given her makeover and reactivation of her online fundraising platform,” said Sperry in February.

Still, word of another Hillary Clinton presidential campaign excites a certain core group of feminists and Democrats. Someone is currently selling “Hillary 2028” bumper stickers online for $5 a pop.

And she’s already receiving endorsements encouraging her to go all the way to the White House in 2028.

When speculation first amped up about Clinton positioning herself for a 2028 presidential bid days after the 2024 presidential election, Breitbart News replied, “Please please please please please please please.”

Hillary Clinton just wrangled a prominent 2028 endorsement—for vice president.

Democrats ought to nominate a 2028 “dream ticket” of Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, Republican influencer Benny Johnson jokingly told Fox News host Jesse Watters in February.

“Bill Clinton could be in charge of young women’s outreach. Maybe some hot tub parties,” wrote Johnson. “Kamala Harris could be their speechwriter. And you could bring back Nancy Pelosi to do some insider fundraising.”

But a lot of Democrats want nothing to do with the Clintons or their baggage-laden personal life.

A progressive activist from New Hampshire, who asked to remain anonymous, told Fox News the state party’s decision to make Hillary Clinton their keynote speaker during a midterm election year, when they face a tough challenge from a liberal Republican cncicate, is “another example of how completely tone-deaf the party is to the need for real change.”

“She’s yesterday’s news, hasn’t offered a new idea in decades, and doesn’t serve the needs of building a new Democratic majority in New Hampshire,” said the activist.

Another Democratic figure, former New Hampshire Young Democrats President Lucas Meyer, said, “Secretary Clinton has a pretty broad appeal…since she’s not running.”

Still, experts say there’s a slim, but not impossible, path for Hillary Clinton to roar back into presidential politics against the Democrats’ incredibly weak bench in two years’ time.

“It isn’t crazy to think Clinton could ride the establishment lane into a final face-off against Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and whoever emerges from the progressive lane, possibly Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who exposed herself as an amateur on the world stage at Munich, or Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA),” assessed Peter Laffin of The Washington Examiner. “At this stage, it isn’t likely. But it isn’t crazy, either.”

Crazy might be just the word to describe a Democratic Party that would go back to the scandal-ridden, geriatric Clintons a fourth time. But then, these are crazy times.

About the Author

Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”