Clinton has plenty of reasons to run for president

PHILIP ELLIOTT AND LAURIE KELLMAN, ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) — She insists she hasn’t decided on a second bid for the presidency. But Hillary Rodham Clinton is laying out more reasons to run than not during her coast-to-coast book tour.

The Republicans’ inquiry into the deadly raid in Benghazi emboldens her, she says. She knows how not to run a campaign after losing the 2008 Democratic nomination to Barack Obama. And she’d be doing something for the women and girls she felt she let down that year, and perhaps, she suggests, be more effective in the struggle by both parties to get gender politics right.

“We live with a double standard,” Clinton told ABC News as she kicked off a tour for “Hard Choices,” her memoir. “People ought to think about their own daughters, their own sisters, their own mothers, when they make comments about women in public life.”

Her main reason to sit 2016 out?

“I really like my life,” Clinton said. “I like what I’m doing. I’m thrilled about becoming a grandmother in the fall. I have lots of hopes for what that means to me and my family.”

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