Ready for Hillary, the grassroots organizing group laying the groundwork for a Clinton 2016 campaign, is sending staff to help on-the-ground efforts in almost every key Senate race this fall.
The group is sending political staff to 14 states, communications director Seth Bringman told reporters in an email: Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
The staff will arrive around Oct. 1, Bringman said, and stay through Election Day.
“This staff deployment is part of Ready for Hillary’s continued commitment to channeling the enthusiasm for a potential Hillary campaign into helping Democrats on the ballot this year,” Bringman said in the email.
The group is also starting to directly fundraise for Democratic Senate candidates. It sent out of a fundraising email on behalf of Iowa candidate Bruce Braley, for whom Hillary stumped on Sunday. Bringman said in an email that it was “the first of likely several such fundraising efforts for Democratic candidates in critical races this year.”
Ready for Hillary has said since its early days that it would work to help Democrats on the ballot in 2014 while also pursuing its main goal of building enthusiasm for a Clinton 2016 presidential campaign.
Isn’t “grassroots staff” a bit of an oxymoron?
Very, very wise decision. Focus on this year, on holding the Senate, and building up some additional goodwill among vulnerable Democrats. If Democrats hold the Senate, it will make Obama’s final two years quite a bit easier and for every Democratic senator that survives, it’ll be that much easier to get a supermajority in '16.
We have to get out the vote no matter what state or district we are in! We have to vote!!
Interesting distribution.
So, by my count:
IA, NH, SC, NV --> The first four
AK, AR, CO, GA, KY, LA, MI, MN, NC --> Contentious Senate races
Agree 100%. Win or lose, it should reap lots of goodwill among party activist Dems across the country, and also will give her a leg up on establishing her own statewide offices should she decide to run in '16.
Of course, this assumes she doesn’t bring in Mark Penn to supervise everything…