A ‘SOFT’ SELL
It’s Ch-ELLE-sea! Hil showing gentler side
HILLARY CLINTON is looking to present a kinder, gentler face as she prepares for her official campaign launch Sunday.
On the day her staff officially moved into Brooklyn offices, Clinton released a gauzy updated epilogue to the paperback edition of her book “Hard Choices,” focusing on the birth of her granddaughter Charlotte.
“Becoming a grandmother has made me think deeply about the responsibility we all share as stewards of the world we inherit and will one day pass on. Rather than make me want to slow down, it has spurred me to speed up,” she writes.
The softer side of the former secretary of state did not move Republicans, who are already painting a darker picture of their likely opponent, releasing a web video called “Stop Hillary” on Friday.
“From the East Wing to the State Department, Hillary Clinton has left a trail of secrecy, scandal and failed liberal policies that no image consultant can erase,” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in an accompanying statement.
As the campaign gears up for its long-awaited kickoff, Clinton staff are working the phones to start bringing in the big bucks needed for the long road ahead.
“The calls are going out right now for funding for Hillary,” one Democratic donor who’d been contacted by Hillaryland said.
The donor said there’d been a request to recruit 10 additional donors to give the maximum contribution of $2,700 after her official announcement to “get the lights on.”
Her announcement comes following a rough month of news. She’s taken heat for using a private email server while secretary of state and deleting many of her communications.
A Bloomberg News poll out Friday shows that 53% of Americans think she “purposely withheld or deleted” relevant emails, while just 29% think she’s being truthful.
Meanwhile, her daughter Chelsea, featured on the cover of the upcoming Elle magazine, made a pitch for the importance of a female President.
“One of our core values in this country is that we are the land of equal opportunity, but when equal hasn’t yet included gender, there is a fundamental challenge there that, I believe, having our first woman President — whenever that is — will help resolve.”