Hillary Clinton has recently met with two of the names most frequently floated to be her campaign manager in 2016, should she choose to run, Politico reported Thursday.
She met Wednesday with Guy Cecil, who oversaw the national Democratic Senate campaign arm during the 2014 election, according to Politico’s sources. Clinton has also met with Robby Mook, who ran Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s 2013 campaign, though Politico could not secure firmer details of the meeting.
The specific substance of the meetings was not disclosed.
Stephanie Schriock, president of Emily’s List and the other name that pops up as a possible manager, demurred when asked by reporters earlier this month if she had had any discussions with Clinton about a potential role in a campaign.
Mook, who worked on Clinton’s 2008 bid, is most commonly portrayed as the frontrunner for the spot. A leak of messages from his private email list last month suggested as much.
“Happens to the frontrunner,” as one Democratic source put it to TPM when discussing the leak.
As long as Mark Penn’s name isn’t in there anywhere, I’m cool.
If she were smart, she’d hire Axelrod and Plouffe
Precisely what she won’t do. It would make too much sense, it would remove her from her pre-fab bubble of yes-men that she already has. And, it would mean she was serious about winning.
I suspect she will dip in a toe into Iowa, but not take it further. Her age, her lack of energy, her lack of any policy issues, and her refusal to take any difficult, brave stance, means that her layer of “support” is about as thick as the first layer of an onion. Remove that, and she has no There there.
Good, Ms. Rodwell.
Time to either poop or get off the pot. I’d prefer she run, but if she isn’t going to, she needs to clear the field immediately.
I agree - I am not impressed and all the Ready for Hillary envelopes I am getting in the mail go straight into the trash.