It appears President Trump’s hope has been dashed after former Democrats presidential candidate and his fierce opponent in the 2016 presidential race, Hillary Clinton said she will not run for president again but will stay involved in politics and continue to speak out against President Donald Trump.

Clinton made the statement while Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s “Woman’s Hour” program on Tuesday, insisting that, “No, I’m not going to run again.”

Assuring that she would continue to oppose Trump, she said, “I think I’m in a position where my voice will actually be magnified because I am not running (for office), and there’s a very good basis, as we watch Trump’s support shrink, that people will say, ‘Well, what she said was right and now where do we go from here?'”.

President Trump in a tweet on Monday said he hopes the former Secretary of state whom he defeated last October re-contests in 2020.

“I’m trying to make the case about what we need to do so that what happened in my election doesn’t happen again,” she said, noting the instruments of her downfall and added that “But I’ll also be raising money and support for candidates and causes I believe in. And I’ll be supporting the Democratic Party in the elections this year, next year and 2020”.

“I thought I was going to win”, she told BBC of her unforseen defeat.

“I thought I was going to win, I thought I’d have the awesome responsibility and great honour of being the first woman president,” she said.

“I had not worked on a concession speech, I had worked on a speech celebrating a victory. … And it all came crashing down,” she stressed.

She, however, described the moment she realised she had lost the race as a “devastating personal loss,” she said she felt “particularly terrible that someone I thought was not qualified or temperamentally suitable to be president was going to assume that office.”

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