Hillary Clinton seems torn about another White House run

Hillary Clinton admitted that she’d “like to be president” but appeared torn about mounting another White House run.

The former secretary of state was asked by Recode’s Kara Swisher in an interview on Friday if she had plans to challenge President Trump in 2020.

“No, no,” Clinton said.

“That was a pause,” Swisher said.

“Well, I’d like to be president. I think, hopefully, when we have a Democrat in the Oval Office in January of 2021, there’s going to be so much work to be done. I mean we have confused everybody in the world, including ourselves. We have confused our friends and our enemies,” she continued.

She said her experience suits her for being the person to renew frayed relationships with world leaders.

“So the work would be work that I feel very well prepared for having been at the Senate for eight years, having been a diplomat in the State department, and it’s just going to be a lot of heavy lifting,” she said.

But Clinton said she wouldn’t make any concrete plans until after the midterm elections next week.

“I’m not even going to even think about it til we get through this Nov. 6 election about what’s going to happen after that, but I’m going to everything in my power to make sure we have a Democrat in the White House come January of 2021,” Clinton said.

But she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, announced earlier this month that they are going to embark on a 13-city tour across the US and Canada beginning later this year and continuing until May 2019.

The tour, titled “An evening with President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton,” is billed as the two hosting discussions about politics and current news events.

Tickets to the event will fetch between $120 and $370 – with the proceeds going to the Clintons.

Philippe Reines, a longtime confidant to the former New York senator, said he doesn’t see any reason why she shouldn’t throw her hat in the ring again.

“It’s curious why Hillary Clinton’s name isn’t in the mix – either conversationally or informal polling – as a 2020 candidate,” Reines told Politico in an interview this month. “She’s younger than Donald Trump by a year. She’s younger than Joe Biden by four years. Is it that she’s run before? This would be Bernie Sanders’ second time, and Biden’s third time. Is it lack of support? She had 65 million people vote for her.”