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Following her loss to Trump in 2016, Clinton campaigned for a number of Democrats during the 2018 midterms, and this past weekend joined 2020 presidential candidates Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and her competitor in the 2016 Democratic primaries Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, in Selma, Alabama, for a commemoration of \"Bloody Sunday,\" the 1965 civil rights march in which demonstrators were beaten and tear-gassed by police as they attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

\"This is a time, my friends, when fundamental rights, civic virtue, freedom of the press, the rule of law, truth, facts and reason are under assault,\" Clinton said in her remarks over the weekend. \"And make no mistake, we are living through a full-fledged crisis in our democracy.\"

But even as Clinton rules out another campaign, her presence has been felt in the early stages of the 2020 race, and the animosity between her campaign and Sanders seems to have endured well past 2016.

While she and Sanders have largely put the lingering bitterness of the 2016 campaign behind, the Vermont senator said earlier this month on ABC's \"The View\" that he is unlikely to take advice from his formal rival as he makes a second attempt to capture the Democratic nomination.

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\"Hillary and I have fundamental differences, and that's what it is,\" Sanders, who launched his 2020 presidential bid last month, said.

Former Clinton adviser Nick Merrill responded to Sanders comment, calling it \"irresponsible\" and \"counter-productive.\"

I don’t know who our nominee is going to be but I am damn sure that beating Trump & getting America back on the right footing is going to require a unified Democratic Party, so crap like this 613 days before Election Day is irresponsible, counter-productive, & sets us all back. https://t.co/LVdqeNcdJB

— Nick Merrill (@NickMerrill) March 1, 2019

Clinton's decision to not forgo a 2020 bid comes as the field of Democratic contenders has swelled to over a dozen candidates, including six U.S. senators, two current or former governors, two current or former U.S. Representatives, and a former U.S. Cabinet secretary.

The decision also comes as a number of high-profile Democrats are announcing that they will not seek the presidency in 2020.

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley have both announced this week that they are not running for president in 2020. Merkley is instead seeking re-election to the Senate, and Holder said he is re-doubling his focus on the issue of redistricting.

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