Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D) on Thursday predicted an election defeat for President Trump, telling “CBS This Morning” in an interview that the factors that contributed to her 2016 defeat to Trump would not happen again.
Asked by CBS whether she worried Trump would be reelected, Clinton replied that she was not, adding that the “many funny things” that occurred during her campaign for president, an apparent reference to Russian interference efforts, would not carry Trump to success in 2020.
{mosads}“I believe that, look there were many funny things that happened in my election that will not happen again. And I’m hoping that both the public and press understand the way Trump plays the game,” she told CBS.
Clinton joined other Democrats this week including Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in supporting the House’s now-launched impeachment inquiry of the president. Many Democrats point to Trump’s latest scandal surrounding his conversation with Ukraine’s president about an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden (D) as a clear attempt to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 election.
“My view is that, given the latest revelation, which is such a blatant effort to use his presidential position to advance his personal and political interests, there should be an impeachment inquiry opened,” she told CBS in the interview.
“I don’t care if you’re for the [Democrats] or you’re a Republican, when the president of the United States, who has taken an oath to protect and defend the constitution, uses his position to in effect extort a foreign government for his political purposes, I think that is very much what the founders worried about in high crimes and misdemeanors,” Clinton continued.
Trump and Republican allies of the White House have argued that a memo detailing his call with Ukraine’s president did not show an attempt by Trump to hinge military support for Ukraine on the country launching an investigation into Biden, while Democrats have argued the opposite.
Some Republicans, however, including Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) have called details of the call troubling.