Hillary Clinton on Monday said she planned to “take stock” of her campaign after the New Hampshire primary, but denied any major impending staffing changes after Politico reported on a possible shakeup.
“I have no idea what they’re talking about or who they are talking to,” Clinton told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. “We’re going to take stock but it’s going to be the campaign that I’ve got. I’m very confident in the people that I have. I’m very committed to them; they’re committed to doing the best we can.”
The report, based on interviews with six anonymous Clinton associates, alleged that the Democratic presidential candidate was considering staffing changes after a narrow win in the Iowa caucuses and amid underwhelming poll numbers ahead of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. Though Clinton expressed confidence in her current staff, she suggested that the campaign planned to reassess its strategy as the race moved forward.
“We’re going to take stock, what works, what doesn’t work,” she told Maddow. “We’re moving into a different phase of the campaign. We’re moving into a more diverse electorate. We’re moving into different geographic areas. So, of course it would be malpractice not to say, ‘OK, what worked? What can we do better?’”
Clinton’s full interview with Maddow will air Monday at 9 p.m. on MSNBC.
Clinto needs to take stock or herself. She needs to “bitch up!” Her running around and saying that she’s pragmatic progressive doesn’t inspire people, especially young women.
Instead, she ough to “bitch up,” and snatch a page from Tina Fey who once remarked “Bitches get things done.” Yeah, own it and be a Big Mama, and inspire people.
Start talking about the “bitches” who have gotten things done: Joan of Arc, Harriet Tubman, Amelia Earhart, Frances Perkins, etc.
She probably has to add more people. She’s got Sanders coming at her on one side and the GOP SuperPACs on the other. Sanders only has to deal with Hillary and, furthermore, the GOP is taking care of the negative campaigning with all those anti-Hillary ads so he can concentrate on his message.
Good point about having to fight on two fronts simultaneously. While Karl Rove is feeding stories about her Wall Street connections to the press some anonymous “Clinton supporters” are leaking campaign shake-up stories to Politico.
I definitely expect she will read everything that’s written and assess each and every observation, analysis and piece of advice on it with all the care, expertise and inside knowledge that’s characteristic of online reader comment threads.
Yes, that’s probably true, so I’m going to throw my 2 cents in: stay the course until after South Carolina! One caucus, one primary in your opponent’s neighboring state do not a pending disaster make. If you do shake it up, it looks like you’ve lost confidence in the electoral strategy you’ve been presumably working on for four if not 6 or 8 years.
Articulate your vision, get Bill out there talking positive but subtly dismissing Bernie’s lack of experience outside the Senate, and put others to work on attacking him outright.
There. Send my 2 cent check to the Red Cross.