Clinton ‘done with being a candidate’
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton said she won’t run for public office again, but the former Democratic presidential nominee isn’t giving up on trying to make her mark on politics.
“As an active politician, it’s over. I am done with being a candidate,” Clinton said in an interview with CBS before Tuesday’s release of “What Happened,” her memoir about the 2016 campaign and Donald Trump’s unexpected win. “But I am not done with politics because I literally believe that our country’s future is at stake.”
Ten months after her loss, Clinton said she’s still coping with it.
“I think I am good, but that doesn’t mean that I am complacent or resolved about what happened,” she said. “It still is very painful.”
Clinton’s language about her future in the interview is more definitive than in her book, in which she said she was “amused and surprised” by talk earlier this year that she was considering a run for New York mayor. She said she needs to nurture young leaders in while adding that she’s not going to back down just because she lost.
“If Al Gore, John Kerry, John McCain and Mitt Romney can find positive ways to contribute after their own election defeats, so can I,” Clinton wrote in the book. “I will speak out on the causes I care about, campaign for other Democrats and do whatever I can to build the infrastructure we need to succeed.”
The book, published by CBS-owned Simon & Schuster, includes an accounting for many of the missteps and strategic errors that Clinton said she made during the campaign, and for which she explicitly takes responsibility.