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Two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has insisted she will never again seek the highest office in the land.

The former secretary of state and senator from New York was asked by CBS Evening News anchor Norah ODonnell about ever-present rumors that she will try one more time to avenge her historic losses to Barack Obama in 2008 and Donald Trump in 2016.

No no, the 74-year-old Clinton replied without hesitation when asked if she would ever run for president again.

But Im gonna do everything I can to make sure that we have a president who respects our democracy and the rule of law and upholds our institutions, she added in a clear shot at Trump.

Asked by ODonnell how that would work if Donald Trump runs again, Clinton said bluntly, He should be soundly defeated.

It should start in the Republican Party grow a backbone! Stand up to this guy! she added. And heaven forbid if he gets the nomination, he needs to be defeated roundly and sent back to Mar-a-Lago.

Clinton also insisted to ODonnell that the FBI raid on Trumps Palm Beach, Fla. home Aug. 8 was a very different situation to the months-long investigation into her use of a personal email server while serving as Americas top diplomat.

I was cleared and [former FBI Director James Comey] just kept talking and talking, she said. And then came up with a new reason to talk some more 10 days before the election.

Theres no doubt at all that he impacted very negatively my chances of winning, Clinton complained.

It was in the middle of an election, there was nothing there and the guy never shut up.

So I think its a really different comparison to whats going on [with Trump], when it appears that the Justice Department [and] the FBI have been incredibly patient, quiet, careful until they finally apparently thought that national security was at stake, she said.

Comey famously announced in the summer of 2016 that Clinton had been extremely careless in handling sensitive information, but added that despite evidence of potential violations of federal law, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring a case against the former first lady.

Clinton has been the subject of ongoing rumors that she would run again after making a series of high-profile appearances.

However, she has insisted she would back President Biden if he were to run for a second term in 2024.

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the David N. Dinkins Leadership and Public Policy Forum at Columbia University in New York City in April 2015. Kevin Hagen/Getty Images hide caption

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the David N. Dinkins Leadership and Public Policy Forum at Columbia University in New York City in April 2015.

Hillary Clinton will join Columbia University as a professor and presidential fellow in global affairs, the university announced Thursday.

Clinton will become a professor of practice at the School of International and Public Affairs and a presidential fellow at Columbia World Projects next month, Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger said in a statement.

"Given her extraordinary talents and capacities together with her singular life experiences, Hillary Clinton is unique, and, most importantly, exceptional in what she can bring to the University's missions of research and teaching, along with public service and engagement for the public good," Bollinger said.

In addition to teaching, Clinton will collaborate with senior faculty on global policy initiatives and ways to boost effective engagement with young people and women.

"Columbia's commitment to educating the next generation of policy leadersand helping to address some of the world's most pressing challengesresonates personally with me," Clinton said Thursday. "Thrilled to join this community."

Columbia World Projects leads a range of projects that allow Columbia to apply its research capabilities to New York City and the world. Projects span from combating climate change and mental health issues to socioeconomic disparities in public health and education.

"We are eager for her contributions to our efforts to advance rigorous scholarship and pursue sound policies and effective actions," Columbia World Projects director Wafaa El-Sadr said.

Clinton will begin to teach students in the classroom starting fall 2023 as part of her professorship at the School of International and Public Affairs, Bollinger said.

"She is a remarkable leader who has been on the frontlines of virtually every critical challenge facing our world todayfrom the global fight to save democracy, her advocacy for women's rights, and her staunch defense of marginalized people everywhere," School of International and Public Affairs Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo said in a statement.

Clinton received an honorary degree from Columbia in 2022 for her work in public service, sharing impromptu remarks with the Class of 2022. She also delivered a keynote address on criminal justice reform for a public policy forum at Columbia during her bid for presidency in 2015.

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Top Democrats are questioning Vice President Kamala Harris' leadership abilities, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton even reportedly has her doubts.

"Members of Congress, Democratic strategists and other major party figures all said she [Harris] had not made herself into a formidable leader," a Monday article from The New York Times read.

The piece said two Democrats recalled Clinton privately dismissing Harris' chances of clearing a presidential primary field because she lacked the necessary "political instincts."

"Two Democrats recalled private conversations in which former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lamented that Ms. Harris could not win because she does not have the political instincts to clear a primary field," the Times reported.

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A spokesman for Clinton pointed to their "strong bond," although the Times didn't quote him issuing a specific denial of Clinton's reported private thoughts.

"They have built and maintained a strong bond. Any other characterization is patently false," Nick Merrill said on Clinton's behalf.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has privately expressed doubt about Kamala Harris' ability to win a future Democratic nomination, the New York Times reported. (Abdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

He also claimed the two held discussions focused on their separate experiences of being "a woman in power" and, according to the Times, reiterated that Clinton remains "strongly supportive" of her.

The Times article relayed Democrats' malaise around Harris' inability to "carve out" a political identity for herself beyond her legacy as many "firsts" the first African American, Asian American and woman to serve as vice president in U.S. history.

"Even some Democrats whom her own advisers referred reporters to for supportive quotes confided privately that they had lost hope in her," the article stated.

In 2016, Clinton became the first and to date only woman in U.S. history to win a major party presidential nomination. The 2020 Democratic field saw a record number of women seek the nomination, Harris among them, but they failed to win even a single primary or caucus.

Harris dropped out well before the Iowa caucuses in the 2020 cycle and ultimately endorsed Joe Biden before being selected as his running mate.

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Vice President Kamala Harris was the subject of a critical report in the New York Times on Monday. (SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Harris has faced repeated criticism over her mishandling of America's southern border crisis, but the hits from her own arena go deeper.

A Jan. 30 article in The Washington Post concentrated on Democrats' frustrations with her tenure as vice president, with the report stating many are "worried" by the idea of seeing her lead the Democratic Party in the future while others are simply uptight about her being a continued drag on the White House.

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"Harriss tenure has been underwhelming, they said, marked by struggles as a communicator and at times near-invisibility, leaving many rank-and-file Democrats unpersuaded that she has the force, charisma and skill to mount a winning presidential campaign," he wrote.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., also appeared uncomfortable with the prospect of seeing Harris return as vice president during a recent interview with Boston Public Radio in which she said she wanted to "defer" the decision to Biden.

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AUSTIN, Texas Hillary Clinton likened Donald Trump's rally in Ohio last weekend to Adolf Hitler courting Nazis, a comparison that drew a sharp rebuke from a spokesman for the former president.

"I remember as a young student, you know, trying to figure out, how people get basically brought in by Hitler. How did that happen? I'd watch newsreels and I'd see this guy standing up there ranting and raving, and people shouting and raising their arms. I thought, 'What's happened to these people?'" Clinton said at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin.

"You saw the rally in Ohio the other night, Trump is there ranting and raving for more than an hour, and you have these rows of young men with their arms raised. I thought, what is going on?"

Trump hosted a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, last Saturday in support of US Senate candidate JD Vance, who is facing Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan to succeed retiring Republican Sen. Rob Portman.

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YOUNGSTOWN, OH - SEPTEMBER 17: Audience members put their index finger up while President Donald Trump speaks at a Save America Rally to support Republican candidates running for state and federal offices in Ohio. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

Some Trump supporters in attendance raised one index finger in the air at the end of the former president's speech.

"My fellow citizens, this incredible journey were on together has only just begun, and it is time to start talking about greatness for our country again. We are one movement, one people, one family, and one glorious American nation," Trump told the crowd.

Taylor Budowich, a spokesman for Trump, accused Clinton of "using some of the most disgusting smears imaginable."

"It seems like perpetual-failed-candidate Hillary Clintons basket of deplorables has run stale, not unlike herself," Budowich told Fox News Digital in a statement. "Its pathetic, its divisive, and it is further cementing her legacy of cringe."

Hillary Clinton speaks during The Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas, US, on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. (Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Other politicians also compared Trump's event to a Nazi rally.

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New York state Sen. Anna Kaplan, a Democrat who represents parts of Long Island, called on Americans to join her "in sharply denouncing the use of Nazi symbolism and imagery anywhere in our political process."

"Last night at a rally held by the former President, and today at a political rally held by a candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, supporters were urged to hold up their right hands in a unified salute that should shock the conscience of every American for its remarkable similarity to the 'Heil Hitler' salute used by the Nazis," Kaplan said in a statement on Sunday.

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio., Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Tom E. Puskar)

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Clinton also railed against Trump for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, saying that she's worried about the undermining of the rule of law.

"I think it is fair to say we're in a struggle between democracy and autocracy," she said Friday.

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Hillary Clinton is dusting off her husbands playbook by criticizing the Biden administrations open borders to put herself in place to mount a 2024 presidential run, veteran political consultant Dick Morrissaid in a new interview.

Morris, a former aide to President Bill Clinton, said Hillary is setting herself up to enter the race as a moderate choice for Democrats in two years for what would be her third shot at the White House.

I see more and more signs that Hillarys going to run, Morris told John Catsimatidis on his WABC 770 AM radio show in an interview that aired Sunday, noting that she has been remarking that Americans do not believe in open borders.

These are all signals that she is going to be the moderate candidate for president. Shes going to say after the election, See, the left cost us the House and the Senate. If we stay with a left-wing candidate in 2024, were going to lose the White House. Im the only one who will tack to the center and give us a chance at victory, Morris said.

Morris said hes aware of the strategy shes employing because its the strategy I designed for Bill Clinton in 1992 when he won the Democratic nomination.

Hillary is just dusting off Bills playbook that I wrote for him and applying it herself this year, he said.

The former secretary of state and senator from New York during an interview on MSNBC last month called out Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for flying migrants from Texas to Marthas Vineyard, alleging the Republican was engaging in human trafficking.

So many other Americans I happen to believe still the majority of Americans are good-hearted and generous and when people end up on their doorstep in need, theyre going to respond. Theyll feed them and house them and the kids in the AP Spanish class will be let out of high school so they can go and translate. Thats the kind of American spirit that we try to celebrate at the Clinton Global Initiative, she said on MSNBC on Sept. 16, adding nobody wants open borders who has any idea of how government and countries work.

Morris was building on comments he made to Catsimatidis on last weeks show when he predicted that Democrats will ditch President Biden in favor of Clinton over fears a more far-left candidate could end up nominated.

Once Biden pulls out, the polling will show that the Democrats are leaning toward some crazy radical like [California Gov.] Gavin Newson, [Vermont Sen.] Bernie Sanders. Maybeeven AOCherself, Morris said, referring to progressive lightning rod Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

Thats going to drive the Democratic Party leaders to go to Hillary and say, Hey look. Please run again. We need you to save us from the crazy left, Morris said.

Otherwise well have Sanders as our candidate. Well lose Congress by a ton. And well get wiped out in the presidential race.

Clinton ran in 2008, but lost the nomination to former President Barack Obama. She lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump.

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