Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is publicly talking about running for president again — and the timing couldn’t be worse for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
During a live interview on Friday, Hillary — a historically unpopular politician — said she still has her eyes on the presidency.
“I’d like to be president. I think, hopefully, when we have a Democrat in the oval office in January 2020… 2021, there’s gonna be so much work to be done,” Hillary said, before railing against President Donald Trump’s foreign policy.
Hillary claimed her time as Secretary of State prepared her to fix Trump’s errors.
“I mean, we have confused everyone in the world, including ourselves,” Hillary told the cheering crowd. “We have confused our friends and our enemies. They have no idea what the United States stands for, what we’re likely to do, what we think is important.”
“So the work would be work that I feel very well prepared for, having been in the Senate for eight years, having been a diplomat in the State Department, and it’s just gonna be a lot of heavy lifting,” Hillary continued.
“So, are you going to be doing any of that lifting?” host Kara Swisher asked.
“I have no idea, Kara.” Hillary replied. “I’m not even going to even think about it until we get through this November 6 election.. about what’s going to happen after that. But I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure we have a Democrat in the White House come January of 2021.”
Hillary Clinton: “I’d like to be president.”
Clinton says she is not going to “think about” running until after midterms conclude. pic.twitter.com/INpPjUk7Lx
— Kyle Morris (@RealKyleMorris) October 28, 2018
Experts say Hillary’s refusal to exit the political scene is hurting Democrats — and thus, hurting Pelosi’s chance for re-election as speaker.
It has Republican leaders cheering her on, though, and asking for more.
“The longer a scandal-plagued Hillary Clinton lingers in American politics, the worse off House Democrats will be,” Jesse Hunt, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, told NBC News in August.