Hillary Clinton said Tuesday in Great Britain that she won’t be seeking the U.S. presidency a third time.
‘No, I’m not going to run again,’ the former Democratic candidate told a host on BBC Radio 4.
On Monday President Donald Trump dared her publicly to launch a new bid for a 2020 rematch.
‘I hope Hillary runs, he said during a press conference at the White House. ‘Hillary, please run again! Go ahead!’
NEVER AGAIN: Hillary Clinton says she won’t be a candidate for U.S. president a third time
BAITING HER: ‘Hillary, please run again! Go ahead!’ President Donald Trump said Monday alongside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at the White House
Trump also jabbed at Clinton on Monday over her support for National Football League players who kneel during the playing of the National Anthem, citing it as indicative of why she fell short in 2016.
‘Honestly, it’s that thinking and that is the reason she lost the election,’ he said.
Clinton claimed Tuesday that she is perfectly positioned to be a constant thorn in Trump’s side during his presidency.
‘I think I’m in a position where my voice will actually be magnified – because I am not running,’ she said.
‘And there’s a very good basis, as we watch Trump’s support shrink, that people will say, “Well, you know, what she said was right, and now where do we go from here?”‘
She said she regularly goes after the president both online and off.
‘I issue public statements. I go on Twitter. I, you know, try to call him out on some of the things he’s done that I think are dangerous, like undercutting diplomacy with North Korea, like pulling out of the Iran agreement,’ Clinton explained.
‘So yes, I’m going to continue to speak out.’
Clinton has blamed everyone but herself for losing to Trump, including WikiLeaks, James Comey, voters who don’t want a female president and ‘pizzagate’
Clinton, hitting stops in the UK during her book tour, said Sunday at a book festival that she tried to get out of going to Trump’s inauguration.
She told an audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival that she had called George W. Bush – a fellow critic of Trump in the run-up to the election – in the hope that he wouldn’t go, giving her an excuse to follow suit.
But the former president and his wife Laura had already agreed to attend – and so she and Bill had to show up.
‘The younger Bushes came and the Carters came, so Bill and I sucked it up did it,’ she said.