--- title: Hillary Clinton Gives Daily Show's Jon Stewart No Clues on 2016 description: The former Secretary of State dodged The Daily Show host's persistent quizzing about her intentions to run for president in 2016 canonical: https://time.com/2990265/hillary-clinton-2016-election-candidacy-daily-show-jon-stewart/ author: Per Liljas article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-16T03:48:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:47:45.866Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Gives Daily Show's Jon Stewart No Clues on 2016 og:description: The former Secretary of State dodged The Daily Show host's persistent quizzing about her intentions to run for president in 2016 og:url: https://time.com/2990265/hillary-clinton-2016-election-candidacy-daily-show-jon-stewart/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcd3054ca14799f07/69869bdbe8524b7850603e57/ap887428589898.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1651 og:image:height: 929 og:image:alt: AP887428589898 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Gives Daily Show's Jon Stewart No Clues on 2016 twitter:description: The former Secretary of State dodged The Daily Show host's persistent quizzing about her intentions to run for president in 2016 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcd3054ca14799f07/69869bdbe8524b7850603e57/ap887428589898.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Gives _Daily Show_’s Jon Stewart No Clues on 2016 Candidacy > Sponsored content. 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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton listens to host Jon Stewart during a taping of The Daily Show, Tuesday, July 15, 2014, in New York City. John Franklin II—AP by [Per Liljas](https://time.com/author/per-liljas/) ## Per Liljas Jul 16, 2014 3:48 AM UTC Hillary Clinton’s Tuesday appearance on _The Daily Show_ failed to [provide](http://news.yahoo.com/no-hints-hillary-clinton-daily-show-234504309.html) any clarity on whether she will run for President, despite host Jon Stewart’s best attempts. “She’s here solely for one reason: to publicly and definitively declare her candidacy for President of the United States,” Stewart said jokingly when introducing Clinton. But the best he could coax out of the former Secretary of State and First Lady was that speculation on her candidacy had turned into a “cottage industry.” Clinton’s appearance on _The Daily Show_ comes near the end of a book tour that has taken her across the U.S., to Europe and to the studios of most major American television networks for extended interviews. It is a return performance for Clinton, who first appeared on Stewart’s Comedy Central show when she was a Senator for New York promoting her 2003 memoir, _Living History_. She also made an appearance during her 2008 presidential campaign. During Tuesday’s show, Clinton touched on several of the domestic and international issues she tackled as Secretary of State, topics that are the backbone of her latest book, _Hard Choices_, which currently occupies the No. 2 slot on the New York _Times_’ nonfiction best-seller list_._ Stewart called the book an “eyewitness view to the history of those four years,” but repeatedly came back to the question of 2016\. “I think I speak for everybody when I say, no one cares (about the book), they just want to know if you’re running for President.” On that point, however, Clinton intends to keep feeding that cottage industry. Watch the extended interview with Clinton below. 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