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Related: About this forumHillary Clinton's political director brings key lessons from her own (losing) campaign
http://www.trbimg.com/img-55a9fa3c/turbine/la-na-amanda-renteria-01-ho-jpgThe most prized credential of Hillary Rodham Clinton's political director may not be her connections on Capitol Hill, her experience courting the crucial Latino vote or the diversity she brings as the child of a Mexican immigrant, but her run for office which she lost.
Last year, Amanda Renteria returned home to California's Central Valley to run for Congress and got crushed. The race in the heavily Latino district exposed blind spots in Democratic strategy with Latino voters, who largely stayed home. The message for Clinton in her 2016 presidential run was clear: The gains Democrats had been making among Latinos could stall anytime.
Now, as Clinton's political director, Renteria is putting the campaign's vast resources to work avenging the 2014 midterms, when Democrats were unable to mobilize the coalition of minority voters that had helped elect President Obama twice.
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"It means a lot to us in the Latino community to have someone like Amanda at the table making decisions and making sure the community is at the table," Rep. Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) said.
Rep. Xavier Becerra of Los Angeles, also a Democrat, said Clinton's appointments of Renteria to one the campaign's most senior jobs and of Lorella Praeli, a Dreamer, to be the director of Latino outreach, resonated deeply among Latino leaders. "Those are the decisions that make you feel like Clinton is one of us," he said.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-clinton-political-director-20150719-story.html#page=1
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Hillary Clinton's political director brings key lessons from her own (losing) campaign (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
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