Hillary Announces for President With Typos, Claims She ‘Fought Children and Families’ During Political Career [+videos]
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“I’m running for president. Everyday Americans need a champion, and I want to be that champion. –H” she tweeted around 3:30 p.m.
Top Clinton aide and campaign manager John Podesta, in an e-mail to veterans of Clinton’s 2008 campaign, donors and fundraisers, minutes earlier sent an e-mail blast with the words that supporters, detractors and political pundits had been waiting for: “It’s official: Hillary’s running for president.”
[Editor’s note: Here’s a Hillary Campaign YouTube Ad]
The e-mail was distributed moments before her official campaign Web site, HillaryClinton.com, went live with her announcement.
“So I’m hitting the road to earn your vote because it’s your time,” the second-time candidate said.” And I hope you’ll join me on this journey.” (Read more from “Hillary Announces for President With Typos, She ‘Fought Children and Families’ During Political Career” HERE)
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Wealthy Hillary Clinton finally enters formal race to be president with video telling middle class voters ‘the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top’ of the economy
By DAVID MARTOSKO.
•’Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times,’ says the multimillionaire politician in a launch video
•Her chief of staff stepped on her big moment with an email to donors saying, ‘I wanted to make sure you heard it first from me’
•Clinton’s press office left an embarrassing typo in its press announcement, saying that she had ‘fought children and families all her career’
•Official campaign website is full of biographical material but includes no policy statements or issue platforms
•Republican Party fires its opening salvo: ‘Americans need a president they can trust and voters do not trust Hillary Clinton’
•Hillary will start her ‘listening tour’ in Iowa and New Hampshire without huge fanfare, and then have a more formal launch event in May
Wunderkind campaign manager, 35, was a child when she was first lady and didn’t live through her defining White House scandals. (Read more from this story HERE).
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When Hillary Clinton’s Announcement Delayed, Political Reporters Get Testy
By Joshua M. Patton. A report from The Guardian said that the “big announcement” from Hillary Clinton today was coming at noon Sunday, but hours later there were no e-mail to supporters or announcement from the candidate. This has more than a few political reporters upset about how she’s messing with their Sundays.
“Hillary Clinton’s 2016 announcement, for which the political press has been waiting since at least November 2012, if not November 2008, was originally maybe possible scheduled for the noon-1 hour, tethering us content jockeys to our laptops or smart toys on an otherwise gorgeous spring day,” according to Mediaite.com. (Read more from this story HERE)
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SNL Gets in on the Hillary Debut
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