ABC Hosts Plead with Chelsea to Run for President, Give Her ‘Clinton 2020’ Bumpersticker

‘Your political tweets give people hope’

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Hosts on ABC's 'The View' are practically begging Chelsea Clinton to run for president in 2020.

"You’ve said you’re not interested in running for a political office, but your political tweets do give people hope," co-host Sarah Haines said during an interview with Chelsea Wednesday. "Is there anything that would change your mind?”

While pitching Chelsea on a presidential run, Haines handed the former First Daughter a "Clinton/Clinton 2020" bumper sticker, ostensibly proposing a joint mother/daughter presidential ticket. It's unclear whom 'The View' preferred atop the ticket.

“Thank you. Thank you. I — I think, you know, as I have said before,“ Clinton replied, “I don’t think being a citizen is something that just happens on Election Day. You know, I think registering to vote and showing up to vote is hugely important.”

“Right, we learned that,” Joy Behar replied dejectedly. 

Clinton said she's "incredibly encouraged" more than 13,000 women told the pro-abortion organization, Emily's List, they will commit to running for office. 

"For city council and for school board, for stage legislator, for Congress," she said. "And so, I hope that we will have more women throwing their hat in the ring, and I look forward to supporting some of those women in the future.”

Behar also asked Clinton how she helped her mom "cope" after "this devastating loss to the country?” 

Clinton said the extra time with her children proved "an unexpected blessing" after her mother's most recent electoral defeat.

Earlier, the ABC hosts dismissed the controversy over Kathy Griffin pretending to decapitate President Trump. 

"We have bigger things in our lives," said Haines. "We're moving on." 

Behar even defended the mock beheading. 

"I think that the mean-spiritedness comes out of the White House and then the comedians just respond to it." she said. "And people are angry and people feel powerless in this country. Right now, he is about to go against the Paris accords which will increase climate change negatively, and he is about to do something stupid like that again, putting himself with Nicaragua and Syria, the only two other countries in the United Nations who are not going to sign the Paris accord."

"Even North Korea is on board for that," she continued, "and this guy is not going to be on it. So we are furious, and the way that we comedians deal with our anger is to be funny and go out there."

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