Hillary Has Personally Thanked Dems Who Endorsed Her Potential 2016 Run

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton smiles out to the crowd in Chicago, Wednesday, June 11, 2014, during an event to promote her new book. Hillary Clinton is returning to New York on Thursday for more st... Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton smiles out to the crowd in Chicago, Wednesday, June 11, 2014, during an event to promote her new book. Hillary Clinton is returning to New York on Thursday for more stops on her book promo blitz. The former secretary of state and potential 2016 presidential contender will be making multiple stops in the city on Thursday. (AP Photo/Stacy Thacker) MORE LESS

Hillary Clinton has been personally reaching out to prominent Democratic politicians who have endorsed her potential bid for the party’s 2016 presidential nomination.

The New York Times first reported that Clinton had called to thank Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for his support after Emanuel endorsed Ready for Hillary, the group building a grassroots base for a 2016 run, and a Clinton candidacy last month. The newspaper added that Clinton had done the same for earlier endorsers, which include Sens. Claire McCaskill, Tim Kaine and Chuck Schumer, among others.

An aide to one of the high-profile early Clinton endorsers confirmed to TPM that Clinton had privately reached out after the endorsement was reported.

Publicly, Clinton has kept her distance from the early 2016 preparation, and she is legally prohibited from coordinating with a super PAC like Ready for Hillary.

“I am so appreciative of everybody who is encouraging me,” Clinton said this week in an interview with ABC News’s Diane Sawyer. “I’m grateful that they have that confidence in me. But this is a really personal decision.”

Ready for Hillary staff have frequently made appearances at Clinton’s public events in recent months to sign up supporters for a 2016 bid, and the group has been following Clinton via bus to most of the stops on her ongoing book tour.

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  1. You know, the way some trolling entities freak out and post ridiculous nonsense regarding Hillary Rodham Clinton makes it so very obvious that they are not at all liberal in the slightest. And they actually think they are going to impact Hillary’s presumed run for the White House in 2016.

    #It’s laughable!

    Pretending to hate Hillary for the right reasons, they falsely presume that the rest of us can’t see through their personal hysteria and aggravated Hillary Derangement Syndrome that

    #They are terrified little shills

    For them, a strong, capable, Democratic woman becoming POTUS, is a horror of nightmarish proportions. So they post old news, new sniveling and false narratives, hoping that somebody other than enlarged amygdala, woman-hating, micro encephalitic social midgets like themselves will vote for a Republican instead…

    #Yeah, good luck with that.

  2. **

    Ready for Oligarchy?

    **

    In related HillaryNews, her PAC is feebly attempting to squash the printing of terrible terrible t-shirts!

    Pro-Hillary super-PAC in fight over ‘Ready for Oligarchy’ merchandise

    A pro-Hillary Clinton super-PAC is facing a legal fight after trying to prevent shirts, mugs and bumper stickers that play on the group’s name.

    Instead of “I’m Ready for Hillary,” a Minnesota activist made a line of shirts declaring “I’m Ready for Oligarchy,” in the same style and with the same font as the super-PAC’s images.

    Ready for Hillary ordered two online sales sites, Zazzle.com and CafePress.com, to take those down, but that demand is coming under fire.

    The consumer interest group Public Citizen is coming to the design creator’s defense, and accusing the super-PAC of trying to clamp down on his constitutional right to political protest.

    In a letter to the group on Monday, attorney Paul Levy wrote that “critical speech directed at a candidate for president is squarely protected by the First Amendment, hence any application of trademark law to quash such uses is highly suspect.”

    Stay classy, PUMAS!

  3. So, I’ll ask you on this thread also…

    Putting your overwhelming Hillary Derangement syndrome aside for a second, what candidate would you propose that has a greater that fifty per cent chance of ensuring that the White House does not fall into Republican hands nor that a Republican has an opportunity to add another Scalia, Thomas or Alito to the SCOTUS?

    Try to be pragmatic with your answer, ideals are nice things but voting them can have severe consequences.

    IMHO you’re in such a state over Hillary that you’re easily distracted and do not give much thought to consequences.

    Either that or you seriously are a Republican or Tealiban under a false flag.

  4. #Bingo!

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