Hillary Clinton: ‘gutsiest’ thing she’s ever done was to stay in her marriage

Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America to promote their book, the Book of Gutsy Women. Photograph: Lou Rocco/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. via Getty Images

Hillary Clinton has said the “gutsiest” thing she’s ever done was to “make the decision to stay in my marriage” to Bill Clinton.

Speaking to ABC’s Good Morning America on Tuesday to promote a book she wrote with her daughter, Chelsea, The Book of Gutsy Women, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate was asked about the gutsiest thing she had ever done.

“Personally, make the decision to stay in my marriage,” she said, without elaborating. “Publicly, politically, run for president. And keep going. Just get up every day and keep going.”

Chelsea Clinton said she was “overwhelmed” by her mother’s answer.

Bill Clinton survived impeachment in the late 1990s over his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Hillary Clinton, then first lady, stood by her husband. She lost the presidency to Donald Trump in 2016 despite winning the popular vote.

Asked the gutsiest thing she's ever done, Hillary Clinton tells @GMA, "Personally, make the decision to stay in my marriage."

"Publicly, politically, run for president. And keep going. Just get up every day and keep going." https://t.co/35Zg7cQ9nU pic.twitter.com/29i3Fmicmk

— ABC News (@ABC) October 1, 2019

Hillary Clinton has been on the media circuit for the last few days promoting the book, and has been vocal about the impeachment inquiry into Trump.

She said that she supports Nancy Pelosi’s decision to start an impeachment inquiry.

On the Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, Clinton said an impeachment inquiry is now “exactly what should be done”. The Ukraine scandal has had “such a huge impact because we’ve known for a long time that he was a corrupt businessman who cheated people,” Clinton told Colbert.

“To see him in the office of the president putting his personal and political interests ahead of the national security of our country just pierced through whatever confusion and denial people had.”

Clinton repeated her stance on Good Morning America, saying she does not have any concerns about the inquiry because the evidence concerning the Ukraine scandal is so “dramatic and irrefutable”.