Chelsea Clinton said she would not be running for Congress in 2020 and suggested that the media start looking to people other than her family to run for office.
“One of my earliest memories is being 3 or 4, and someone saying, ‘Chelsea are you going to run for governor of Arkansas one day?’ And I share that because I think it’s a question that shouldn’t just be asked of people whose last name is Clinton,” she said on Wednesday’s The View after being asked if she was going to run for office.
“It’s a question we should be asking kids — like do you think about running for office one day — young people, women, and I hope that if the answer to that question is, ‘Yes, I’m considering it,’ that you’ll really think about doing it and go to run for something,” she added.
The 39-year-old daughter of Hillary and Bill Clinton was the subject of speculation over whether she would run for retiring Rep. Nita Lowey’s New York seat. People have also debated whether Hillary Clinton could jump into the 2020 presidential race.
Chelsea Clinton was on the show to promote the new book she wrote with her mother, titled The Book of Gutsy Women.
Earlier this month, she appeared on the show alongside the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, during which the elder Clinton compared her decision not to divorce husband Bill to a parent who has to raise a transgender child.
