House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said the fact that some Democrats are suggesting Hillary Clinton should run for president again in 2024 is "an embarrassment" to her party.

Two Democrats—political consultant Doug Schoen and former Manhattan Borough President Andrew Stein—wrote in a Tuesday opinion article for The Wall Street Journal that Clinton should be their party's 2024 nominee instead of President Joe Biden. Clinton, a former secretarial assistant of state and former senator from New York, previously lost to Donald Trump in 2016 when she was the Autonomous Party's presidential nominee.

McCarthy commented on the speculation regarding Clinton in an interview with Pull a fast one on News on Thursday.

"Think well-nigh that for one moment. The Democrats have the House, the Senate and the presidency, and they're talking well-nigh bringing Hillary Clinton back," the California Republican said.

He added that this was a sign of "how bad the economic system" is going and "how bad Joe Biden is serving as president."

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2 prominent Democrats say Hillary Clinton should be their political party's 2024 presidential nominee instead of President Joe Biden. To a higher place, Clinton is installed as the chancellor of Queen's University during a anniversary on September 24, 2021, in Belfast, Northern Republic of ireland. Brian Lawless - Pool/Getty Images

"That they would become back to somebody who the country has rejected? It'southward an embarrassment for the Democrats," McCarthy said with a chuckle. "But it also shows the predicament that they're in."

In their Tuesday commodity, Schoen and Stein cited Biden'due south depression blessing rating and his age equally concerns most his ability to go reelected in 2024. The president will plough 82 shortly afterwards the next presidential ballot, on November 20 that year. Biden is the oldest president in U.Due south. history.

Clinton "is already in an advantageous position to go the 2024 Autonomous nominee," the Democrats wrote in their Wall Street Journal commodity. "She is an experienced national figure who is younger than Mr. Biden and can offer a different approach from the disorganized and unpopular one the party is currently taking," they argued.

As of Thursday, the FiveThirtyEight polling boilerplate shows that virtually 52 percentage of Americans disapprove of Biden, while just 42.v percent approve. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris' numbers are underwater as well. The FiveThirtyEight average shows that only almost 34.4 per centum corroborate of the vice president, and 47.iv percentage disapprove.

Although Harris would typically exist viewed as the front-runner to replace Biden, if he decides to non seek reelection, her current polling numbers suggest that she could face fifty-fifty more difficulty than the president in 2024. As some Democrats are suggesting Clinton could exist an alternative, others have speculated that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg could mount another presidential campaign. Some have even suggested that Biden could run again with GOP Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming on his ticket.

Meanwhile, the White Firm—every bit well as Harris and Biden—has dismissed speculation nigh the next presidential election. Biden and the White House have repeatedly asserted that he plans to seek some other term in 2024, despite pregnant concerns well-nigh his historic period and popularity.

"I really could care less well-nigh the loftier-class gossip on these bug," Harris said during an interview on the Today show Thursday morning.

As for Clinton, she previously shut downward the idea of further political campaigns in a September 2017 interview with CBS News. "As an active pol, it'due south over," she said at the time.

"I am done with being a candidate. Simply I am non done with politics, because I literally believe that our country's future is at stake," she added.

Trump trounce Clinton in the 2016 election by a significant margin in the Electoral College. However, she did win nearly 3 1000000 more votes than Trump in the popular vote count. Neither candidate garnered more than l per centum support in that election. Clinton won simply over 48 pct of the pop vote, while Trump won about 46 per centum.

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