Hillary was in much less of a rush. She’d been amassing a fortune giving paid speeches to private companies, including Wall Street banks, and she didn’t see the need to prolong what would be a grueling campaign. She even told friends and advisers that she was reluctant about jumping in at all. “She didn’t want to run for president,” one person she spoke to at the time said. “She did not want to do it. She just concluded that no one else could win.” This may have sounded like the idea of running was thrust upon her by circumstance, but in truth, she had spent the years since her 2008 primary
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