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Hillary Clinton says a 2024 presidential campaign is ‘out of the question’, asserts it would be ‘very disruptive’ to challenge Biden

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Hillary Clinton in a recent interview with the Financial Times ruled out a 2024 presidential bid.
“No, out of the question,” she told the newspaper, pointing to Biden’s desire to run for reelection.
A recent NYT report detailed how some Democrats are weighing whether to back Biden in 2024.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in an interview published on Friday ruled out a 2024 presidential campaign, saying that her entry into the race is “out of the question.”

While speaking with the Financial Times, the former first lady and US senator said that she expected President Joe Biden to stand for reelection in two years. When asked if she could view herself launching a campaign — after unsuccessfully challenging Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination in 2008 and losing the general election to Donald Trump in 2016 — Clinton quickly waved off such a proposition.

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Biden is teasing a coming decision on student-loan forgiveness. Here’s everything we know about how it could look.

Pressure has been mounting for Biden to cancel student debt, as he pledged during his campaign.
Last month, he said his decision on relief would come in a matter of weeks.
While Republican opposition mounts, a few developments hint at the kind of relief borrowers might see.

Despite President Joe Biden’s campaign pledge to cancel $10,000 in debt per borrower, he’s been largely silent on the issue through his presidency.

But there may be a light at the end of tunnel for more than 40 million Americans with federal student loans.

In late April, Biden said he’d “have an answer” on relief in the coming weeks. That was a year after Biden asked the Department of Education to prepare a memo outlining his legal power to cancel student debt. Insider found that the Education Department created and circulated the memo, but Biden has not revealed its contents.

Instead of relief for all borrowers, so far, Biden has focused on targeted groups like borrowers with disabilities and those defrauded by for-profit schools, who have seen more than $9 billion in collective debt relief. He also extended the pandemic pause on student loan payments four times since taking office, following two from former President Donald Trump.

Democrats are pressuring him to relieve borrowers in fear of low midterm turnout, with some progressives urging him to cancel at least $50,000 for those in debt. Meanwhile, Republicans senators have introduced bills intended to prohibit cancellation.

Biden’s approval rating among the young people who helped get him elected is tanking. With the payment pause set to expire after August 31, Americans are on pins and needles to find out what Biden will do.

Here’s everything we know so far.

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“No, out of the question,” she said.

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She continued: “First of all, I expect Biden to run. He certainly intends to run. It would be very disruptive to challenge that.”

Biden has said publicly and privately said that he intends to run for reelection in 2024.

However, a recent New York Times report detailed that some Democrats have expressed concerns about Biden’s standing among the general public as his approval ratings continue to sag and the party faces a difficult midterm climate where Republicans are set to make major gains in Congress.

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