For any normal person, her words meant she was done. But not for her. She refuses to leave the stage, they’re gonna need a hook.
Via Daily Wire:
There’s only one way to say that you’re not running for president: “I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.”
Boom. Done and done.
That’s what Union Army Gen. Tecumseh Sherman said in 1884. President Lyndon Johnson used similar language when he announced in 1968 that he wouldn’t run for re-election. “I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president.” In 2006, Vice President Dick Cheney quoted Sherman exactly as he dispelled notions that he’d run in 2008.
And former Rep. Mo Udall (D-AZ) made no bones about whether he’d run for president in 1984, with a bit of added hyperbole. “If nominated, I shall run to Mexico. If elected, I shall fight extradition.”
THAT is how you announce you’re not running for president.
But Hillary Clinton didn’t say that — not by a long shot.
Asked by a reporter at a New Hampshire TV station what her 2020 intentions are, she said this: “I’m not running, but I’m going to keep on working and speaking and standing up for what I believe.”
The Clintons are great at this kind of non-denial denial, this kind of semantical word play.