Posted on 09/03/2025 10:47:22 AM PDT by Red Badger
Rumors are circulating that Chelsea Clinton may be thinking about running for Congress in New York’s 12th District after longtime Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler announced that he will not seek re-election.
As Democratic strategists consider potential candidates who could win over voters in a rapidly expanding field, reports have emerged regarding Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But she has said several times over the years that she does not want to get involved in politics.
Nadler’s retirement concludes his 30-year tenure in Congress, during which he chaired the House Judiciary Committee while President Donald Trump was impeached for the first time. His leaving means that one of New York’s most important Democratic seats will be open for the first time in decades, which is causing a power struggle among local Democrats.
Nadler is the 10th most senior member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the 8th most senior Democrat.
Bringing up Chelsea Clinton’s name in the debate shows how strong the Clinton political brand is in Democratic circles. This also raises the question of whether a family with such strong ties to Washington could run for government again in the next generation.
On Tuesday, Jewish Insider reported from unnamed sources that Hillary Clinton was considering a run for president. The former first daughter has said many times in public that she does not want to run for office, nevertheless.
In 2019, she denied reports to The View that she might run to succeed Nita Lowey, who was leaving her job as a New York representative. When asked about her future political aspirations, she said, “I don’t know, but right now, the answer’s no.”
In the months following her mother’s loss in the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump, Chelsea Clinton made similar statements.
In March 2017, she told Variety that she considers her public role more about advocacy than politics. “I am not running for office,” she stated.
As the deadline for filing approaches, speculation about the Democratic primary in NY-12 is certain to grow. Unless Clinton officially changes her mind about what she said in the past, the race will probably be between local elected officials and longtime political strategists fighting for Nadler’s seat.
In an interview with The New York Times published Monday, Nadler said Biden’s 2024 withdrawal after a bruising debate with Trump reinforced his decision, adding that a younger successor “can maybe do better, can maybe help us more.”
“I’m not saying we should change over the entire party,”
Nadler told the outlet. “But I think a certain amount of change is very helpful, especially when we face the challenge of Trump and his incipient fascism.”
Democrats routinely call President Trump a “fascist” and “authoritarian,” but he has constantly run up against federal court rulings that have curbed many of his initiatives, though several of those rulings have been labeled as constitutionally suspect by Republicans.
For Nadler’s part, he did not say who he wanted to succeed him, only that his decision not to seek reelection “has not been easy.”
“But I know in my heart it is the right one and that it is the right time to pass the torch to a new generation,” he said.
“I don’t know what the future beyond 2026 holds, but I plan to stay fully engaged in the community that is my home and in the causes that I’ve championed throughout my life,” Nadler continued. “My plans for the next sixteen months, however, are clear. I will continue to give everything I have to defend our democracy, protect our institutions, and fight for the values that as Americans and New Yorkers we share.”
Nadler, 78, was first elected in 1992 and served as House Judiciary Committee chair from 2019 to 2023 before becoming ranking member.
Caroline Kennedy didn’t work out so well for them, I was actually STUNNED at how stupid she was!! I had never heard her speak before with all of the absolute best education she was dumber than a rock!! I think the Clintons are DONE NO ONE cares about them any longer Obama can’t even get any traction out there America is SO DONE with these people!! They NO LONGER have a strong hold on information getting out to the masses AND they are VERY, VERY BAD at social media they look like utter fools!!!
If she runs, and wins, her mother will be running her Congressional office and policies.
If Webb’s kid pulled this off, mama Hildabeast will be the puppet master pulling the strings.
An unfortunate looking lass ... unlike the Light Bringer (BHO) Chelsea might be able to stand on a seashore and stop the waves from coming in ...
Gee. Who could have foretold this? Of course, she graduated from Haaahhhvahd, and we now know that most graduates of that now useless institution received phony A’s to keep the professors in their positions, so she’s probably dumber than a box of hammers.
Well that was quick! Just 24 hours after Nadler decided not to run. He probably knows what her mom did to eliminate her competition for a NY senate seat in 1999
How nice, ANOTHER useless twit, just like her mother.
Soon Chelsea won’t be eligible to run for anything except captain of her cell block.
The Clintons and “Camelot’’?
More like an episode of “Trailer Park Boys’’.
Chelsea Clinton Eyeing $$$$$$$ For Nothing.
Fixed it.
God please NO!
I sincerely hope she doesn’t run. I have enough sources of anxiety without the prospect of her as a candidate. She has neither the brains nor talent to carry out the duties of a national office.
That’s our side’s view.
You know she will run. She has to. To keep her mother informed about what’s being said and done about her past record of criminality. She’ll be Hillary’s inside personal leaker.
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Today, anyway
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