Hillary Clinton: Dems Won’t Be Hurt By My Delayed 2016 Decision

Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton talk at the Unique Lives and Experiences series, Broomfield, Colorado, America - 02 Jun 2014 (Rex Features via AP Images)
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Hillary Clinton, addressed her timetable for deciding on a 2016 presidential bid, in an interview segment with ABC’s Diane Sawyer that aired on Sunday.

“I will be on the way to making a decision by the end of the year, yes,” Clinton said about her decision-making process, adding that she definitely won’t announce a decision before the end of this year and that it’s “probably likely” that she won’t come to a conclusion until 2015.

“I just want to kind of get through this year, travel around the country, sign books, help in the midterm elections in the fall, and then take a deep breath and kind of go through my pluses and minuses about what I will – and will not – be thinking about as I make the decision,” she said.

Clinton, who has long been the presumptive Democratic nominee in 2016, said that any delay in her decision on a run won’t have a negative impact on the party.

“No. I mean, no. People can do whatever they choose to do on whatever timetable they decide,” she said when asked if the party was “frozen” while she made her decision.

Clinton also discussed Benghazi, and said she’s not sure whether she will testify before the House select committee.

“That’s going to be up to the people running the hearing,” she said. “We’ll see what they decide to do, how they conduct themselves, whether or not this is, you know, one more travesty about the loss of four Americans, or whether this is, in the best tradition of the Congress, an effort to figure out how – what we can do better.”

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  1. She’s not as masterful at it as is Pres Obama, but Hillary is a chess player. She’s not going to show her game too early.

  2. Excellent. Allow the right wing to become EVEN MORE unhinged!

  3. It’s Novemeber 2016. Hillary got more than two thirds of the electoral votes. The GOP just lost the popular vote for the sixth time in the past seven presidential elections. The Democrats will have a nice majority in the Senate. Hillary will be appointng justices to the SCOTUS, Phat Tony will be 80, and he isn’t the healthiest looking guy. All the lie generated insane Obama conspiracy theories have been proven to have been baseless, just like all the Clinton “scandals” were. Mariage equality will be accepted in all 50 states. Obamacare will be recognized as a great sucess by all rational adults.

    What happens next will determine the future of our democracy. Will the radical right wing fringe finally accept the results of an election that should prove to them that their agenda isn’t the American agenda? Or will they think that “real Americans” need to take “their” country back from "those people. Tens of millions of under-educated, heavily armed, people who have been radicalized by propaganda, paid for by billionaires, who have been using them as pawns. Will they turn violent or will they realize that their ideology isn’t shared by the vast majority of the country, and it’s time to put the best interests of their children and their country, above all else, and work together through the democratic process, and put us back on the path to doing what works?

  4. You go, Hils. Rover, Luntz, Ailes, Murdoch, Koch Bros need that much more stress in their lives. Me, I’m buyin’ popcorn.

  5. Some Republican mouthpiece on one of Sunday news programs said a while ago that America wasn’t ready to elect Hillary because it would be a “third Obama term.” Their logic has failed.

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