The Democrats want Bill and Hillary Clinton nowhere near America as voters head to the polls on Tuesday.

In fact, the pair is 8,111 miles from Washington, D.C. for a business leaders summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.

African News Agency reports:

Speaking at the Discovery Leadership Summit in Johannesburg, the Clintons said they were hopeful about democracies around the world but cautionary, among other things about ungoverned technology and artificial intelligence possibly threatening job security in economies such as South Africa’s.

Hillary said government under President Cyril Ramaphosa was hopeful for South Africa after a difficult prior decade.

“What citizens want to see is hope that is tethered to results. Part of what is going on in Europe and the US is that democracy is not delivering the kind of results that people want. Some of what they want is not as basic as other places, like South Africa, where you first have to deal with inequality, lift people up and create a diverse and inclusive society,” she said.

“Hillary and I have spent our lives fighting an us-versus-them world. And it seems that all the walls in the world look more like nets now,” Bill said.

The Clintons met with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the event.

It’s likely not a coincidence the Clintons are thousands of miles away.

Unlike Barack Obama and Joe Biden, Hillary has not been holding rallies for Democrat candidates.

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Neither has Bill. There might be a reason for that, according to the New York Times:

When a Republican state legislator in Arkansas pushed last year to rename the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Clarke Tucker stood up for the former president.

“The argument was that the people of Arkansas don’t support the Clintons,” said Mr. Tucker, a Democratic member of the state House of Representatives. “My thought at the time was, well, the people of Arkansas voted for Clinton eight times.”

But now, as the Democratic nominee in the tightest congressional race in this state, Mr. Tucker is happy for the former president and his wife to remain a plane ride away. Mr. Clinton, who was governor and attorney general of Arkansas, was once a near-ubiquitous presence helping Democrats in tough races back home, but the former president hasn’t been asked to appear on the trail for Mr. Tucker.

There are no plans for him to do so. Or, for that matter, appear publicly with any Democrat running in the midterm elections.

“Every election is about the future,” Tucker said.