Your browser does not support the iframe HTML tag. The latest fracas started last week when Clinton suggested on a podcast that Russians are “grooming (Gabbard) to be the third-party candidate.”
“There are people who believe she won - or should have won,” Finney said, adding that Clinton’s overall resume and the current political dynamics give her “a unique voice and perspective.” politics and the ongoing House impeachment inquiry against Trump all add to the intensity of feelings for Democrats and Republicans alike. The 2016 election circumstances, a continued focus on Russian interference in U.S. For Republicans, she’s an evergreen foil, used currently in the Mississippi governor’s race, where Democratic nominee Jim Hood, a longtime attorney general, is being attacked for acknowledging he voted for her over Trump. The first woman to win a major party presidential nomination - and the national popular vote leader with almost 3 million more votes than Trump - Clinton remains a popular figure in her party, even after enduring criticism for losing key Midwestern states to Trump. McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin, has made perhaps the biggest recent splash as a conservative media sensation who helped stoke a base that ultimately embraced Trump.īut Clinton “is in her own category” as a “global figure,” said Karen Finney, a top aide on her 2016 campaign. Democrat Al Gore became a leading advocate for climate action. Sitting senators like Democrat John Kerry and Republican John McCain returned quietly to Capitol Hill.
There’s no settled playbook for former nominees - or former presidents - in party politics. talking about the urgencies that we have before us and not indulging in what I think is, for me, not a relevant story,” Booker said, targeting the news media more than Clinton or Gabbard. “We need to focus on winning this election. Yet the results can frustrate those trying to win the office that Clinton twice lost, a reality presidential hopeful Cory Booker observed with a carefully calibrated critique while he campaigned Monday in New Hampshire. “It’s easy to over-ascribe a strategy about every word she utters, but it’s as simple as that. “The short of it is that she’s on a book tour and is feeling unconstrained about speaking her mind,” said Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill. The dynamics raise questions about how Clinton and her party can best leverage her strengths and navigate her weaknesses through next November.įor her part, aides say Clinton isn’t attempting any calculated play. Her scuffle with Gabbard and other recent headlines she’s driven demonstrate that the 71-year-old remains a political lightning rod, just as she’s been through much of the last three decades.
But “in this senior leader role she has,” Cohen said, “it’s her job to embrace the range of politics within the party and not polarize within it.”
She deserves to be heard,” said Cohen, a prominent member of the Democratic National Committee who also chairs Our Revolution, the spinoff of Sanders’ last presidential campaign. senator and secretary of state has “put a lifetime into the Democratic Party. Larry Cohen, one of Sanders’ top supporters, was more conciliatory but warned in an interview that Clinton could harm the eventual 2020 nominee by weighing in against specific candidates, even a longshot like Gabbard. “People can disagree on issues,” Sanders wrote Monday, “but it is outrageous for anyone to suggest that Tulsi is a foreign asset.” Some Democrats are putting up caution signs for Hillary Clinton as she wades back into presidential politics by casting 2020 candidate Tulsi Gabbard as a “Russian asset,” mocking President Donald Trump’s dealings with a foreign leader and drawing counterattacks from both.īernie Sanders, who lost the 2016 nomination to Clinton and is running again in 2020, took to Twitter with implicit criticisms of his erstwhile rival.
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