Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016

Hillary for America
Campaign U.S. presidential election, 2016
Candidate

Hillary Clinton

Affiliation Democratic Party
Status Announced: April 12, 2015
Official launch: June 13, 2015
Headquarters 1 Pierrepont Plaza
Brooklyn, New York[1]
Key people
Receipts US$115,563,928[3] (2015-12-31)
Slogan Hillary for America
Website
hillaryclinton.com
Clinton speaking on February 8, 2016 at Manchester Community College, NH on the eve of the NH Primary vote

The 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, the 67th United States Secretary of State, was announced by means of a YouTube video, on April 12, 2015.[4] The wife of former President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton was the United States Senator from New York prior to serving as Secretary of State under President Barack Obama, an office she held from 2009 until 2013. The runner-up in the 2008 Democratic primaries, her candidacy in the 2016 election is her second bid for the presidency.

Background

2008 presidential run

Clinton after winning the New Hampshire primary during her first presidential run

Clinton announced her decision to run for the 2008 presidential election on January 20, 2007. Early in the race, she was considered the frontrunner for the Democratic Party, and actively sought her party's nomination. Clinton ran ahead in the polls, until Illinois Senator Barack Obama began pulling ahead following the South Carolina primary. In the prolonged primary battle that ensued, during which she received more than 18 million votes, Clinton lost the nomination to Obama. Obama won the general election against Arizona Republican Senator John McCain on November 4, 2008.

Post-2008 election

As soon as Clinton ended her 2008 campaign there was talk of her running again in 2012 or 2016.[5] Speculation picked up sharply after she ended her tenure as Secretary of State in 2013,[6][7] particularly after she listed her occupation on social media as "TBD".[8][9][10]

Anticipating a future run, a "campaign-in-waiting" began to take shape in 2014, including a large donor network, experienced operatives, the Ready for Hillary and Priorities USA Action campaign political action committees (PACs), and other campaign infrastructure.[11]

By September 2013, amid continual political and media speculation, Clinton said she was considering a run but was in no hurry to decide.[12] In late 2013, Clinton told ABC's Barbara Walters that she would, "look carefully at what I think I can do and make that decision sometime next year";[13] and told ABC's Dianne Sawyer in June 2014 that she would, "be on the way to making a decision before the end of the year".[14]

Book tour

Clinton's farewell address at the State Department

In mid-2014, Clinton published her book Hard Choices, which focuses on her time in public life, and went on a nationwide book tour to promote it. Many commentators saw the book tour as a "pre-announcement event",[15] and others in the press viewed the promotional tour as a dry-run for a presidential campaign, noting its mechanics and many stops in small-book markets that happen to be located in swing-states and early-primary states.[16] It was during this tour to promote her book that Clinton made the comment to ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer that, "We came out of the White House not only dead broke but in debt", which was widely criticized by political opponents and some in the media. The next day, Clinton clarified the comment in an interview with Good Morning America's Robin Roberts, saying, "Let me just clarify that I fully appreciate how hard life is for so many Americans today", Clinton said. "Bill and I were obviously blessed. We worked hard for everything we got in our lives and we continue to work hard, and we’ve been blessed in the last 14 years.... As I recall we were something like $12 million in debt", Clinton said, and added, "We have a life experience that is clearly different in very dramatic ways from many Americans, but we also have gone through some of the same challenges as many people have. I worry a lot about people I know personally and people in this country who don’t have the same opportunities that we’ve been given."[17] Former President Bill Clinton also defended his wife the next day to NBC's David Gregory at an event at the Clinton Foundation, saying she is "not out of touch.... It is factually true that we were several million dollars in debt", and added that the reporters asking his wife questions "should put this in some sort of context".[18]

Decision-making process

While many political analysts came to assume during this time that Clinton would run, she took a long time to make the decision.[19] While Clinton said she spent much of the two years following her tenure as Secretary of State thinking about the possibility of running for president again, she was also noncommittal about the prospect, and appeared to some as reluctant to experience again the unpleasant aspects of a major political campaign.[20] Those around her were split in their opinions, reportedly, with Bill Clinton said to be the most in favor of her running again, Chelsea Clinton leaning towards it, but several of her closest aides against it.[19][20] She reportedly studied Obama's 2008 campaign to see what had gone right for Obama as compared to her own campaign.[20] Not until December 2014, around the time of the Clintons' annual winter vacation in the Dominican Republic, did she say she decided for sure that she would indeed run again.[19][20]

Expectations

According to nationwide opinion polls in early 2015, Clinton was considered the front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.[12][21][22] She had gained a broader sweep of early endorsements from the Democratic Party establishment in the 2016 race than she did in 2008,[23][24] although she did face several primary election challengers,[25][26] and, in August 2015 Vice President Joe Biden was reported to be seriously considering a possible challenge to Clinton.[27]

Clinton has a very high name recognition of an estimated 99% (only 11% of all voters said they did not know enough about her to form an opinion) and according to Democratic pollster Celinda Lake, she has had strong support from African-Americans, and among college-educated women and single women.[28]

In Time magazine's 2015 list of "The 100 Most Influential People", Clinton praised Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who herself was considered as a potential challenger to Clinton, for being a "progressive champion".[29] Warren has repeatedly stated that she is not running for president, despite pressure from some progressives who have expressed concerns about Clinton's ties with Wall Street.[30]

Announcement

Hillary for America committee logo

The Clinton campaign had planned for a delayed announcement, possibly as late as July.[31][32][33]

On April 3, 2015, it was reported that Clinton had taken a lease on a small office at 1 Pierrepont Plaza in Brooklyn, New York City. It is widely speculated that the space will serve as her campaign headquarters. Morgan Stanley has a major office in the building, which is also the home of the law office of Loretta E. Lynch, who at the time was the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and who in 2015 was sworn in as Attorney General of the United States.[34][35]

It was reported on April 10, 2015, that Clinton would make her official announcement on the following Sunday, April 12.[36][37] Unlike her 2008 campaign announcement, which was held at a high school in Iowa and was attended by over 1,000 people, Clinton announced her 2016 campaign via video, rather than staging a large speaking announcement.[38] She then traveled to early primary states, such as Iowa and New Hampshire during the following week. Clinton was the third candidate with support in national polls to announce her candidacy, following Republican Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky, while Florida Senator Marco Rubio announced his candidacy on April 13, the day after Clinton. Some Democrats saw the proximity of Clinton's campaign announcement to Rubio's as advantageous, as Clinton's announcement might overshadow Rubio's.[39]

YouTube video

Clinton released the YouTube video formally announcing her candidacy via email at 3 p.m. EDT, on April 12, 2015. She stated that, "Everyday Americans need a champion. And I want to be that champion."[40]

Van tour

Hillary Clinton at an early campaign event in Iowa on April 14, 2015

Clinton began her campaign by making short trips to early primary and caucus states.[40] Immediately following her announcement, she made a two-day road trip in a customized Chevrolet Express van, nicknamed after Scooby-Doo, going from New York to Iowa, and stopping several times along the way, including a much publicized stop at a Chipotle Mexican Grill outside Toledo, Ohio, where Clinton was not recognized by the staff.[41][42][43] The trip gained considerable media attention and was, according her campaign, intended as a bit of political theater to help emphasize Clinton's intended new message of showing a sense of down-to-earth humility, and a focus on the future of middle class Americans, while at the same time countering attacks that she was wealthy and out-of-touch with such concerns.[44] The events she attended in Iowa, organized by her campaign to have her meet with small numbers of local students and other residents, were dwarfed by dozens of national and international members of the press trying to report on them.[45]

Clinton responded to very few questions from the press during the first month of her campaign. During her visits to early primary and caucus states, she did not hold any formal press conferences, and did not participate in any media interviews.[46][47] On May 19, 2015, after 28 days, Clinton answered some questions from reporters at an event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.[48] Clinton's campaign announced she would make additional stops in Florida, Texas and Missouri in May and June.[49]

Kickoff rally

Clinton delivers the speech at her kickoff rally. The United Nations headquarters, Empire State Building, and Chrysler Building can be seen in the background.
Clinton greets the crowd following her speech.

Clinton held her first major campaign rally June 13, 2015, at Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on the southern tip of New York City’s Roosevelt Island.

In her speech, Clinton addressed income inequality in the United States, specifically endorsed universal pre-kindergarten, paid family leave, equal pay for women, college affordability, and incentives for companies that provide profit sharing to employees.[50] She did not address free trade agreements during the kickoff speech,[51] but made statements the next day suggesting that the current negotiations should be abandoned unless improved.[52]

The campaign said more than 5,500 people were in attendance, but estimates of crowd size by the press in attendance were less.[53]

According to John Cassidy, staff writer at The New Yorker, Clinton, up to a point, took a populist tone:[54]

While many of you are working multiple jobs to make ends meet, you see the top twenty-five hedge-fund managers making more than all of America’s kindergarten teachers combined. And often paying a lower tax rate. So, you have to wonder, ‘When does my hard work pay off? When does my family get ahead? When?’[54]
Prosperity can’t be just for C.E.O.s and hedge-fund managers. Democracy can’t be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too. You brought our country back. Now it’s time—your time—to secure the gains and move ahead.[54]

Advertising

In August 2015, the Clinton campaign began a $2 million television advertising buy in Iowa and New Hampshire.[55] The ads featured footage of Clinton's late mother, Dorothy Rodham, and of Clinton herself.[55] and featured women, family, and children.[55]

Platform

Clinton has focused her candidacy on several themes, including raising middle class incomes, expanding women's rights, instituting campaign finance reform, and improving the Affordable Care Act.

Given the climate of unlimited campaign contributions following the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, Clinton has called for a constitutional amendment to limit "unaccountable money" in politics.[56]

She believes in equal pay for equal work, to address current shortfalls in how much women are paid to do the same jobs men do.[57]

Clinton has explicitly focused on family issues and supports universal pre-K.[56]

On LGBT rights, she wants to see the right to same-sex marriage enshrined in the constitution.[56]

Clinton holds that allowing undocumented immigrants to have a path to citizenship "[i]s at its heart a family issue."[58] She supports allowing undocumented immigrants to earn drivers licenses.[56]

Clinton has expressed support for Common Core.[59] She says, “The really unfortunate argument that's been going on around Common Core, it’s very painful because the Common Core started off as a bipartisan effort. It was actually nonpartisan. It wasn’t politicized....Iowa has had a testing system based on a core curriculum for a really long time. And [speaking to Iowans] you see the value of it, you understand why that helps you organize your whole education system. And a lot of states unfortunately haven't had that, and so don't understand the value of a core, in this sense a Common Core.”[60]

On December 7, 2015, in the New York Times, Clinton presented her detailed plans for regulating Wall Street financial activities and related.[61] She proposes reining in the largest institutions to limit risky behavior, appointing strong regulators, and holding executives accountable.

Strategy and tactics

Clinton campaign strategists reportedly believe that a strong liberal campaign would mobilize the same voters who swept Barack Obama to victory in 2008 and 2012. This approach is informed in part by polls, focus groups, and the advice of the campaign's experienced political operatives.[62][63] The campaign has indicated it will focus its efforts on contested states.[64]

Marketing

Viewed as a brand, Hillary Clinton is considered to be well-established and well-known, having been First Lady and Secretary of State. Professionals in branding and marketing, such as Wendy Clark of Coca Cola, and Roy Spence of GSD&M, have been brought into the campaign to assist with "re-branding" Clinton.[65]

Press relations

Clinton has had an uneasy, and at times adversarial relationship with the press throughout her life in public service.[66] Weeks before her official entry as a presidential candidate, Clinton attended a political press corps event, pledging to start fresh on what she described as a "complicated" relationship with political reporters.[67] Clinton was initially criticized by the press for avoiding taking their questions,[68][69] after which she provided more interviews.

Celebrity and security

Due to the presence of a large Secret Service detail protecting her, as well as large numbers of members of the media, there are practical obstacles to Clinton mixing and interacting with the public at events such as the Iowa State Fair; the press of people drawn to her and the size of her entourage interact badly.[70]

Clinton Cash

In anticipation of the release of Clinton Cash by Peter Schweizer on May 5, 2015, an investigative book which suggested impropriety in donations and speaking fees paid to Bill and Hillary Clinton, and the Clinton Foundation, Clinton campaign strategists obtained a copy of the book in late April, and selectively released chapters of the book to the media, forestalling the effect of exclusive arrangements with The New York Times and The Washington Post made by the author. Opposition to the book's allegations were prepared and published on Medium, YouTube,[71] and the candidate's website.[72][73]

Fundraising

According to an article in The Washington Post, Clinton's presidential campaign is benefiting from a network of donors, whom the Post says: "Bill and Hillary Clinton have methodically cultivated donors over 40 years, from Little Rock to Washington and then across the globe. Their fundraising methods have created a new blueprint for politicians and their donors."[74] According to the Post, by the end of September 2015, the campaign's fundraising effort for "Clinton’s 2016 White House run … has already drawn $110 million in support".[74]

In response to the article, a campaign spokesman said that "it would be misleading, at best, to conflate donations to a philanthropy with political giving.... And regarding the campaign contributions, the breadth and depth of their support is a testament to the fact that they have both dedicated their lives to public service and fighting to make this country stronger.”[74] As the Post article points out, fundraising for the 2016 presidential campaign exists "in a dramatically different environment" than in the past, and the 2010 Citizens United v. FEC decision and ruling by "the Supreme Court has made it easier for wealthy individuals, corporations and unions to spend huge, unregulated sums on political activity".[74] In the fall of 2015, the Clinton campaign "set up a joint fundraising committee with the Democratic National Committee and 32 state committees that can accept up to $356,100 per year from an individual donor — the first 2016 candidate to pursue such a tactic. Unlike Sanders, [Clinton's campaign] has sanctioned big-money super PACs working on her behalf, including one coordinating directly with her campaign."[74]

In the debate between Sanders and Clinton in New Hampshire prior to the New Hampshire primary Clinton, objecting to the inference that campaign contributions or speaking fees from the financial sector would influence her political decisions, characterized Sanders references to her Wall Street connections as "'very artful smear' campaign."[75] He responded by saying, "It's a fact. When in the last reporting period her super PAC received $25 million and $15 million came from Wall Street, what is the smear? That is the fact."[76]

Staff

John Podesta, Campaign Chairman

Robby Mook serves as campaign manager, and is the first openly gay person to serve in that role in a major presidential campaign.[77][78]

Stephanie Hannon serves chief technology officer, and is the first female to serve in that role in a major presidential campaign.[79][80][81]

Other campaign staff include John Podesta as campaign chairman, Joel Benenson as chief strategist and pollster, Jennifer Palmieri as communications director, and Amanda Renteria as policy director.[82] Longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin is the vice chairwoman of the campaign,[82] and continues in the role she has long played for Clinton as traveling chief of staff and "body woman".[83]

Caucuses and primaries

Iowa

Clinton won the 2016 Iowa Democratic caucuses by .25 of a percent of the vote.[84] This win made her the first woman to win the Iowa caucuses.[85]

Clinton was supported more in Iowa by older voters with only 14% of voters aged 17–29 supporting her while 84% supported Sanders. Clinton was supported more by women, Sanders by men. Voters with less income supported Sanders more while those with more income supported Clinton more. Voters to whom being able to win in November was an important issue tended to support Clinton.[86]

New Hampshire

Sanders won the New Hampshire Democratic primary on February 9, 2016 by 22.4% of the vote (60.4% to Clinton's 38.0%); he received strong support from voters who considered it important to nominate a candidate who is "honest and trustworthy."[87][88] Clinton received 9 of the 22 delegates.[89] Women voters voted 44% for Clinton, 55% for Sanders.[90]

Nevada and South Carolina

The Clinton campaign is relying on Latino and African-American support in the Nevada caucuses and the South Carolina primary as well as in the mostly Southern states that select delegates on March 1, Super Tuesday. 60% of the Democratic delegates will be chosen by the end of March.[91]

Super Tuesday

11 Democratic Party presidential primaries are scheduled for March 1, Super Tuesday. Participating states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado caucuses, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota caucuses, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia.[92]

Delegate Count

As of February 10, 2016, according the AP Delegate count which includes the expressed preference of Democratic super delegates (party officials and office holders), Clinton had 394 delegates, Sanders 44. 2,382 are required for nomination.[93]

Health

In July 2015, Clinton became the first 2016 presidential candidate to publicly release a medical history. The Clinton campaign released a letter from her physician, Dr. Lisa Bardack of Mount Kisco, New York, attesting to her good health based on a full medical evaluation.[94] The letter noted that there has been a "complete resolution" of a brain concussion that Clinton suffered in 2012 and "total dissolution" of prior blood clots.[94] Bardack concluded that Clinton had no serious health issues that would interfere with her fitness to serve as president.[94]

Email controversy

Clinton, before her official announcement, speaking to the media at the United Nations Headquarters regarding her use of a private email server while Secretary of State. Video

In March 2015, Clinton's practice of using her own private email address and server during her time as Secretary of State, in lieu of State Department servers, gained widespread public attention.[95] Concerns were raised about security and preservation of emails, and the possibility that laws may have been violated.[96] More than 1,600 emails on the server, though not marked as classified at the time, had been retroactively designated as classified by the State Department as of February, 2016, including 22 deemed "Top Secret".[97][98] Government policy, reiterated in the nondisclosure agreement signed by Clinton as part of gaining her security clearance, is that sensitive information should be considered and handled as classified even if not marked as such.[99] After allegations were raised that some of the emails in question fell into this so-called "born classified" category, an FBI probe was initiated regarding how classified information was handled on the Clinton server.[100][101][102][103]

On February 4, 2016, it was confirmed that former Secretary of State Colin Powell and aides of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, had a total of 12 emails on their personal account that were later marked classified.[104][105]

Benghazi hearings

On October 22, 2015, Clinton testified for a second time before the Benghazi Committee and answered members' questions for more than eight hours in a public hearing.[106][107][108] The New York Times reported that "the long day of often-testy exchanges between committee members and their prominent witness revealed little new information about an episode that has been the subject of seven previous investigations...Perhaps stung by recent admissions that the pursuit of Mrs. Clinton's emails was politically motivated, Republican lawmakers on the panel for the most part avoided any mention of her use of a private email server."[106] The email issue did arise shortly before lunch, in a "a shouting match" between Republican committee chair Trey Gowdy and two Democrats, Adam Schiff and Elijah Cummings.[106] Late in the hearing, Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, accused Clinton of changing her accounts of the email service, leading to a "heated exchange" in which Clinton "repeated that she had made a mistake in using a private email account, but maintained that she had never sent or received anything marked classified and had sought to be transparent by publicly releasing her emails."[106]

According to The Hill, the hearings provided a positive momentum for Clinton's 2016 campaign, with her performance generating headlines such as "Marathon Benghazi hearing leaves Hillary Clinton largely unscathed" (CNN), and "GOP lands no solid punches while sparring with Clinton over Benghazi" (The Washington Post). Her campaign received a windfall of donations, mostly coming from new donors.[109]


Affiliated Super PACs

The Clinton campaign lags behind opposing Republican campaigns in gaining large donations from wealthy donors to supportive Super PACs. Many potential liberal big-money donors have not yet committed to support Clinton.[110]

Following Clinton's loss in the New Hampshire primary Priorities USA Action committed $500,000 to a radio campaign in South Carolina and $4.5 million to Super Tuesday primaries.[112][113] As if late January the fund had $45 million.[91]

Endorsements

See also

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