--- 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: 2026-08-19T07:47:59.180Z 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=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 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=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Did Hillary Clinton Just Announce Her 2020 Presidential Campaign? > Sponsored content. 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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/). On Thursday, she travels to Nevada. ## Transcript You know by now that I've been called many things by many people. [ LAUGH ] Quitter is not one of them. [ APPLAUSE ] Like so much else in my life, I got this from my mother. When I was a girl, she never let me back down from any bully or barrier. In our later years, mom lived with us. And she was still teaching me the same lessons. I'd come home from a hard day at the Senate, or the State Department. Sit down with her at the small table in our breakfast nook. And just let everything pour out. 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