Clinton Vows To Stay In Race Until Convention

Hillary Clinton told the Washington Post in an interview published Saturday that she would stay in the Democratic Presidential Race until the convention:

In her most definitive comments to date on the subject, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton sought Saturday to put to rest any notion that she will drop out of the presidential race, pledging in an interview to not only compete in all the remaining primaries but also continue until there is a resolution of the disqualified results in Florida and Michigan.

A day after Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean urged the candidates to end the race by July 1, Clinton defied that call by declaring that she will take her campaign all the way to the Aug. 25-28 convention if necessary, potentially setting up the prolonged and divisive contest that party leaders are increasingly anxious to avoid.

"I know there are some people who want to shut this down and I think they are wrong," Clinton said in an interview during a campaign stop here Saturday. "I have no intention of stopping until we finish what we started and until we see what happens in the next 10 contests and until we resolve Florida and Michigan. And if we don't resolve it, we'll resolve it at the convention -- that's what credentials committees are for.

"We cannot go forward until Florida and Michigan are taken care of, otherwise the eventual nominee will not have the legitimacy that I think will haunt us," said the senator from New York. "I can imagine the ads the Republican Party and John McCain will run if we don't figure out how we can count the votes in Michigan and Florida."

Asked if there was a scenario in which she would drop out before the last primaries on June 3, Clinton said no. "I am committed to competing everywhere that there is an election," she said.

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Comments

[deb813]

Funny she didn't campaign in 11 in a row and now she's going to campaign in every state till the end. I hope the people of Pennsylvania are smarther then SHE gives them credit for and does the right thing for the DEMOCRATIC PARTY and not CLINTON PARTY and sends her packing. She is a rash that won't go away.

[gmundenat]

The narcissist with a titanic sense of entitlement will not step aside for the good of the party? I'm shocked.

[SouthCentralDel]

She has to otherwise she will not get any more donations. And they are in debt.

[kate123]

I think you're right. She'll talk a good game, but when she can't raise anymore money and the money is coming out of her own pocket, she'll be out. The only thing the Clintons love more than power is money.

[ampay]

Once a liar, always a liar. She just can't stop. She knows it's over.

[boombox]

Now *that* might nudge a few superDs into the Obama column.

[cambio]

Hasn't anyone mentioned to her that even if you seat Florida and Michigan's delegates she still doesn't have even close to enough delegates to win? Someone should forward that memo along to her.

And yeah, Edwards was talking the same way right up until the day he dropped out. Of course Edwards had a lot more integrity and decency than Hillary has, so who the hell knows.

[GoodGuysandBadGuys]

hello, president mccain!

[Jimmyboyo]

edwards said the same thing up till the day he dropped out

[Crozier]

These are not the Edwards...but the Clintons

[SouthCentralDel]

Does this mean they are both running?

[PingMama]

Yes he did, but he's also not as divisive and ego driven like Hillary.

She's going to bring her own democratic party down. I could only hope and pray that the party elders step in after the last primary and force her out in the worst kind of way.

[debwarot]

That is true, Jimmyboyo. But Senator Edwards is a decent sort with a sick wife. Now Senator Clinton may also have a sick spouse, but I'm not sure she can be categorized as being the decent sort.