Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton laid out the reality of the 2024 election during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and did not mince words in explaining the very clear differences between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
In her concise comparison, Clinton underscored Biden’s qualities of leadership and empathy, contrasting them with the legal troubles faced by Trump. She emphasized that the choice between the two candidates should not be difficult, given the glaring differences in character and integrity.
Addressing voters who are "upset" over the Biden-Trump choice, she said:
"Get over yourself. Those are the two choices."
"One is old and effective and compassionate, has a heart and really cares about people. And one is old and has been charged with 91 felonies. I don’t understand why this is even a hard choice, really."
"We have to go through the election and hopefully people will realize what’s at stake, because it’s an existential question: What kind of country we’re gonna have. What kind of democracy we’re gonna have. And people who blow that off are not paying attention.”
"It's not like Trump, his enablers, his empowerers, his allies are not telling us what they want to do. I mean, they're pretty clear about what kind of country they want."
You can hear what she said in the video below.
Hillary Rodham Clinton on the Importance of Voting and Her Broadway Show Suffs (Extended)youtu.be
Many concurred with Clinton's assessment.
Clinton, who ran against Trump in the 2016 presidential election, had previously voiced many concerns about Trump's approach to leadership and democracy during her campaign.
She often criticized him for what she described as dictatorial tendencies and a perceived threat to American democratic values and has since her 2016 election loss been largely vindicated as Trump's rhetoric and behavior lived up to her predictions.
Over the summer, she spoke out in response to the news Trump and 18 of his associates were indicted in Georgia for their attempts to overturn the 2020 election result, emphasizing that the indictments against Trump serve as evidence of the American judicial system functioning effectively.
Clinton called Trump's indictment "a terrible moment for our country to have a former president accused of these terribly important crimes" but nonetheless stressed that "the system is working" because "all of the efforts by Trump and his allies and enablers to try and silence the truth and undermine democracy have been brought into the light."
