2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumClinton fundraisers report hearing from new donors after Biden bows out
Top fundraisers for Hillary Clinton said on a weekly conference call that they had already started hearing from new donors in the hours after Vice President Joe Biden announced he would not run in 2016, according to one person who was on the line.
The call, led by top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, came hours before the candidates Thursday congressional testimony on Benghazi, but it also touched on Biden. Abedin noted that Clinton had given Biden time and space to make his decision, and that they had spoken shortly after the vice president her 2008 opponent and her former Senate colleague delivered his announcement. Clinton for months refused to engage with reporters questions about Bidens political plans, even when her campaign chairman John Podesta suggested after last weeks debate that time was running out for the vice president.
Abedin, the vice chair of Clintons campaign and a longtime aide to the former secretary of state, also alluded to the Democratic front-runners testimony, without giving away much of her plan. I am sure you all have read the criticism of the committee, Abedin told the fundraisers, according to the person on the line, in reference to accusations that the Republican-led panel is more geared at discrediting Clinton than getting to the bottom of the 2012 Benghazi attacks.
Both the Clinton campaign and its top supportive super PAC, Priorities USA Action, have released ads about the political nature of the committee, which has become the center of much tension in Washington ever since House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy appeared to attribute a drop in Clintons poll numbers to the panels work.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/hillary-clinton-fundraising-donors-biden-215038#ixzz3pGFQa7iL
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)JTShroyer
(246 posts)riversedge
(70,197 posts)onecaliberal
(32,829 posts)oasis
(49,376 posts)to beat back the GOP demon.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)...were stumbling all over themselves to get her to take their bribes.
Too bad she'll never get a chance to repay her precious corporate donors, as Sanders will be in the White House beholden to NO ONE--except for "We The People."
artislife
(9,497 posts)More favors to deliver on.
Poor 99%ers...we just fade further into the rear view mirror.
Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)The corporate lobbyists don't say, "I'll give a million to your Super PAC if you promise to deregulate my industry." But they want to talk to Hillary Clinton before donating to make sure that's implied.