--- title: Did Hillary Clinton Just Announce Her 2020 Presidential Campaign? description: Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton said she plans on being a two-term president. canonical: https://time.com/3924857/hillary-clinton-2020/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-17T18:51:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:58:52.462Z article:section: Politics og:title: Did Hillary Clinton Just Announce for 2020? og:description: She's got big plans. og:url: https://time.com/3924857/hillary-clinton-2020/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt46590ffd0f4a158d/698854f2f887dc7ff1e90f87/hillary-clinton-2020.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a launch party at Carter Hill Orchard on June 15, 2015 in Concord, New Hampshire. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Did Hillary Clinton Just Announce for 2020? twitter:description: She's got big plans. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt46590ffd0f4a158d/698854f2f887dc7ff1e90f87/hillary-clinton-2020.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Did Hillary Clinton Just Announce Her 2020 Presidential Campaign? ## Video: Hillary Clinton 2016 Campaign Launch Highlight [Watch (HLS stream): Hillary Clinton 2016 Campaign Launch Highlight](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/oxkyGIWI.m3u8) (0:50)  _Published 2015-06-13. Hillary Clinton 2016 Campaign Launch Highlight_ by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Jun 17, 2015 6:51 PM UTC  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a launch party at Carter Hill Orchard on June 15, 2015 in Concord, New Hampshire. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a launch party at Carter Hill Orchard on June 15, 2015 in Concord, New Hampshire.Darren McCollester—Getty Images by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Jun 17, 2015 6:51 PM UTC Hillary Clinton is running for president … in 2020? During a campaign stop in South Carolina on Wednesday afternoon, Clinton fielded a question from Calvin Wright, the director of a local poverty alleviation agency on how she would help boost the middle class. “I hope that at the end of my two terms as president, I will have overseen an even bigger peacetime expansion of the economy than my husband did,” Clinton said, “and he had the biggest peacetime expansion in our history.” If Clinton wants to look back at a two-term legacy, she’ll have to run again in 2020—not to mention win the general election in 2016\. But consider Clinton’s remarks on Wednesday an early announcement: She plans to be a two-term president. Clinton will propose in South Carolina on Wednesday a plan to [provide tax credits to businesses that hire apprentices](http://time.com/3923808/hillary-clinton-apprenticeship/). 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