‘I’m done with being a candidate’, Hillary Clinton says in campaign memoir
But in a TV interview, Clinton said she was not done with politics because, ‘I literally believe that our country’s future is at stake’
Washington — Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton pointed to her willingness to speak to Wall Street firms and the poor "optics" of those highly paid appearances, as a contributing factor to her loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Clinton takes responsibility for what she termed a "mistake" in What Happened, her memoir of the campaign that goes on sale Tuesday. In the book and a TV interview ahead of its release, Clinton said she did not intend to run for office again but would not step back from political life. "As an active politician, it’s over. I am done with being a candidate," Clinton said in an interview with CBS’s Jane Pauley that aired Sunday. "But I am not done with politics because I literally believe that our country’s future is at stake." Ten months after her loss, the former secretary of state and first lady said she was still trying to cope with it. "I think I am good, but that doesn’t mean that I am complacent or resolved about what happened....
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