Hillary Clinton will be a “much stronger” presidential candidate in 2016 than she was in 2008, said the brains behind the Barack Obama campaign that edged her out in the Democratic primary.
“[H]aving run the campaign that beat her last time, and we barely beat her, she’s in a much stronger position than she was then,” David Plouffe, Obama’s 2008 campaign manager and subsequently a senior White House adviser, said at the Realtor Party Convention & Trade Expo in Washington, as quoted by The Hill.
The former senator and first lady saw her profile rise when she served as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013 in the Obama administration.
Plouffe joked that if Clinton runs, “I’m sure that, on our side, there’ll be a Democrat or two that will run because they want an MSNBC show.”
Plouffe joked that if Clinton runs, "I’m sure that, on our side, there’ll be a Democrat or two that will run because they want an MSNBC show."
I appreciate his insightfulness and honesty! While I know that she is not the ideal candidate for some of us here and that she comes with baggage no one else has her profile nationally.
So, having said this I’ll now go pop some corn and return to read the standard argle-bargelling in this thread.
Git Some!
Let’s look back to late 2007. You know, the last time Hillary was I-N-E-V-I-T-A-B-L-E.
A valid point, but until I start seeing some Democrats that can beat her it is hard to argue that she isn’t.
That’s great David…but could any one of you high profile Dem talking heads perhaps talk about the election coming up FIRST instead of a non-declared possible candidacy 2 years away?
Not asking much, except perhaps giving the sitting President a functioning congress NOW, and a potential future President HRC a functioning congress THEN.
If I’m yelling, it’s on purpose. Time for some people to pull their heads out of their asses…LONG past time, actually.
While I quite agree we need to focus on the mid-terms. What is Plouffe going to say when asked about Hillary; Not going to talk about her until after the mid-terms. Now ask me a question about the mid-terms. Damn it!