Hillary Clinton's 2024 Election Comeback - By Douglas E. Schoen and Andrew Stein

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(I think that this is intriguing because of the authors: Mr. Schoen is founder and partner in Schoen Cooperman Research, a polling and consulting firm whose past clients include Bill Clinton and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Mr. Stein is a former New York City Council president, Manhattan borough president and state assemblyman.)

A perfect storm in the Democratic Party is making a once-unfathomable scenario plausible: a political comeback for Hillary Clinton in 2024. Several circumstances—President Biden’s low approval rating, doubts over his capacity to run for re-election at 82, Vice President Kamala Harris’s unpopularity, and the absence of another strong Democrat to lead the ticket in 2024—have created a leadership vacuum in the party, which Mrs. Clinton viably could fill.

She is already in an advantageous position to become the 2024 Democratic nominee. She is an experienced national figure who is younger than Mr. Biden and can offer a different approach from the disorganized and unpopular one the party is currently taking. If Democrats lose control of Congress in 2022, Mrs. Clinton can use the party’s loss as a basis to run for president again, enabling her to claim the title of “change candidate.”

Based on her latest public statements, it’s clear that Mrs. Clinton not only recognizes her position as a potential front-runner but also is setting up a process to help her decide whether or not to run for president again. She recently warned of the electoral consequences in the 2022 midterms if the Democratic Party continues to align itself with its progressive wing and urged Democrats to reject far-left positions that isolate key segments of the electorate. In a recent MSNBC interview, Mrs. Clinton called on Democrats to engage in “careful thinking about what wins elections, and not just in deep-blue districts where a Democrat and a liberal Democrat, or so-called progressive Democrat, is going to win.” She also noted that party’s House majority “comes from people who win in much more difficult districts.”

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Mrs. Clinton can spend the time between now and midterms doing what the Clinton administration did after the Democrats’ blowout defeat in the 1994 midterms: crafting a moderate agenda on both domestic and foreign policy. This agenda could show that Mrs. Clinton is the only credible alternative to Mr. Biden, Ms. Harris, and the entire Democratic Party establishment. Hillary Clinton remains ambitious, outspoken and convinced that if not for Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey’s intervention and Russian interference that she would have won the 2016 election—and she may be right. If Democrats want a fighting chance at winning the presidency in 2024, Mrs. Clinton is likely their best option.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-clinton-2024-comeback-president-biden-harris-democrat-nominee-race-2022-midterm-loss-11641914951 (subscription)

[gay texan]

1. They wish n/t

[walkingman]

2. I wonder....What the reaction would be if Hillary were to run in 2024?

If it were a choice between Hillary vs Trump? I know my college age Nephew (who claims to be a progressive) just cannot stand her. Would this group just not vote as they seemed to do when Bernie lost the Primary?

I voted for Bernie twice but would vote for Hillary in a heartbeat. I would prefer a more progressive candidate but I truly believe that any Democrat is better than a Republican.

[Drunken Irishman]

6. No reason to believe 2024 would be any different than 2016.

[dutch777]

15. Precisely! Sad Dems don't have more talent on the bench. Oh, Michelle...pretty please!?!?

[David__77]

3. In 2012, he encouraged primary voters to write in Clinton instead of voting for Obama.

Seems like a mischievous person, Schoen.

https://www.politico.com/blogs/politico44/2011/12/doug-schoen-democrat-108176

[TheFarseer]

4. Please No

This is a sure way to hand the election to the Republicans. This should not even be discussed until Joe says he’s not running. Can you imagine how everyone would come unglued if this was written about Andrew Yang or Bernie?

[lapucelle]

9. Yang is no longer a Democrat. He founded a third party.

Sanders already had two shots and lost both times.

HRC is a private citizen. Besides, she would never damage the party to satisfy her own ego or purely personal ambitions.

[TheFarseer]

12. Fair point about Yang

I more meant if he ran again instead of going 3rd party. On Bernie, Hillary has run twice also. I was just trying to come up with non-CNN darlings off the cuff.

[lapucelle]

14. Yes, I know they both ran twice. It's clear that HRC is a private citizen

who remains active in the party, but under the radar. It's not like she she's running around the country engendering publicity and soliciting donations for a personal political war chest.

[dchill]

5. Please, God, no.

[Rebl2]

16. +1

+1

[Autumn]

7. No. President Biden is doing an awesome job, I want four more years then Harris can carry

on with their agenda. We know what and who wins elections,Biden showed us that.

[SteelReel]

8. Thanks for the LAUGH n/t

[question everything]

10. Welcome to DU

I think that it is important to know what is "floating." And as for this being an op-ed in the WSJ: Both Senators Sanders and Brown have published there in the past year or so.

[lapucelle]

11. Yes, welcome.

[madville]

13. Yeah, no thanks

Let’s nominate someone with a lower approval rating than Biden has because Biden has a low approval rating lol, great logic!