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Several news sources are reporting that Hillary Rodham Clinton is preparing to launch her 2016 presidential campaign.
While “the specific moment she jumps into the race remains a closely guarded secret,” CNN reports that the announcement is “only days away.”
The associated Press believes Clinton will launch he presidential campaign sometime in the next two weeks and both news sources believe that, this time around, Clinton will place a lot less emphasis on herself:
• “Less mention of her own ambitions.” No ‘I’ in Clinton 2016,” CNN calls it.
• “…more about voters and less about herself,” says the AP.
CNN:
This first-person mantra, which flourished repeatedly throughout her statement back on Jan. 20, 2007, will be all but stripped from her vocabulary, aides say. In its place will be a pledge to carry the causes of Americans who feel left behind in the economic recovery and the growing divide among classes.
In what other ways will “this time around” be different from last time?
CNN:
“The early caucus and primary states give her an opportunity to visit with folks in small, more intimate settings, where they will learn a lot about her and she will learn a lot from them,” Tom Vilsack, the agriculture secretary and former Iowa governor, who served as a national chairman of her 2008 campaign, told CNN.
The AP:
Clinton aides have long said her second White House run will look different from the first, and a focus on smaller, more unscripted events will be how she tries to make good on that pledge. In 2008, Clinton tried to compete with Obama’s large rallies, but she couldn’t match his rhetorical skills at the podium or the massive crowds that gathered to see him speak.
Of course, this second time around will not be easy, even though Clinton may not face as powerful a competition as she did in the 2012 primaries.
The long knives are already out — even within her own Party. The e-mail accusations will haunt her in the primaries and, coupled with Benghazi and other outlandish, partisan machinations, the general elections will be bloody. But I believe that if anyone will be able to handle the expected, take-no-prisoners Republican onslaught, it will be a tough, mature, tested Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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