January 1, Op-Ed Declares Hillary 2024 the Dems’ Best Hope

A recent opinion piece by Joe Concha for The Hill suggests that Hillary Clinton may be the best choice for the Democratic nominee amid President Joe Biden’s fledgling approval numbers and public standing.

In the piece titled “Hillary 2024? Given the competition, she may be the Dems’ best hope,” Concha cites a recent poll that found only 22% of Americans want Biden to run again in 2024.

When polling only Democrats, Biden doesn’t fare much better. Only 36% want Biden, and 44% want “someone else.”

Concha, a media and politics columnist, thinks that “someone else” might as well be Clinton. As many people on Capitol Hill speculate that Donald Trump will run for president in 2024, Concha listed reasons why other would-be Democratic contenders wouldn’t be the right choice.

“The Democratic bench is about as deep as the New York Jets’ these days. Vice President Harris? She’s at 28 percent approval, per USA Today,” Concha wrote. “Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo? No longer governor and thoroughly disgraced. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA)? He had to spend major time and resources just to avoid being ousted in deep-blue California during a recall election earlier this year.”

“If those are the options, why not Hillary? She’s 74 years old, which is like being bathed in the fountain of youth compared to Biden. And she’s still stunned — five years later — that she actually lost to Donald Trump. In fact, she sounds no different than Trump in constantly complaining about all the reasons she lost and that, well, the election was stolen by Trump and the Russians anyway. That type of rhetoric is a big no-no for Trump, but A-OK if Hillary (or Stacey Abrams) does it. Rules are rules.”

Based on Clinton’s recent behavior in the public eye, she may be gearing up to throw her hat in the ring. Clinton warned against Trump making another presidential bid in a new interview with Sunday TODAY.

“If I were a betting person right now, I’d say Trump is going to run again,” Clinton said. “But I want people to understand that this is a make-or-break point.”

“Are we going to give in to all these lies and this disinformation and this organized effort to undermine our rule of law and our institutions, or are we going to stand up to it?”

In the interview, Clinton tells Willie Geist that she was so certain of a 2016 victory over Trump, she didn’t prepare a concession speech.

Earlier this month, Clinton tearfully read her would-be victory speech publicly for the first time for a MasterClass called “Hillary Rodham Clinton Teaches The Power of Resilience.”

“Hillary Clinton always seemed to believe the mantle of ‘First Female President’ was her birthright,” Concha wrote. “And given how pathetic the field is on the Democratic side with or without Joe Biden, she may just get a second chance at winning the office her husband so famously made infamous.”

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Hillary 2024? Given the competition, she may be the Dems’ best hope