Roosevelt I. relaunch pledges redistribution

Robin Hood has traded tights for a royalblue pantsuit.

Hillary Rodham Clinton rebranded herself as an antiWall Street warrior who would take from the rich to give to the poor in an official presidential campaign launch Saturday on Roosevelt Island.

“Prosperity can’t be just for CEOs and hedgefund managers, democracy can’t just be for billionaires and corporations,” Clinton declared to 5,500 fans under blue skies at Four Freedoms Park.

It was a dramatic doover of her April 12 Twitter announcement that she was running for the White House for a second time.

Since that launch, her campaign has struggled amid revelations that her family’s Clinton Foundation accepted questionable donations, suspicions over her use of private email while secretary of state, and criticism she was ducking questions from the press and public.

“We’ve had the spring training, and now it’s opening day,” John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman, told reporters 45 minutes before she took the Hshaped stage.

Powergirl pop songs, including Katy Perry’s “Roar,” Taylor Swift’s “Shake it Off” and Kelly Clarkson’s “Stronger,” dominated the prespeech playlist. And Clinton took the stage to the strains of Sara Bareilles’ “Brave.”

The speech presented Hillary 2.0 as a populist who champions the nurses, food servers and farmers — and criticizes the “1 percent.”

“You see corporations making record profits, with CEOs making record pay, but your paychecks have barely budged,” she said.

Echoing Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union address, in which he enumerated “the four freedoms” — freedom of worship and speech and freedom from want and fear — she declared the “four fights”: building the economy, strengthening families, defending the country from global threats and reforming government.

She also asserted, without irony, that “we have to stop the endless flow of secret, unaccountable money that is distorting our elections, corrupting our political process, and drowning out the voices of our people.”

She said she would support a constitutional amendment to undo the Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizens United case, which refused to restrict superPAC political spending. Republicans weren’t buying it. “Hillary becoming a populist is like Derek Jeter coming back to play for the Red Sox. It doesn’t feel right, and no one will believe it,” said GOP consultant Jessica Proud.

Clinton claimed the top 25 hedgefund managers in the country earn more money than all of America’s kindergarten teachers combined, and often pay less taxes.

“So you have to wonder,” Clinton thundered. “When does my hard work pay off ? When does my family get ahead? When? “I say now,” she announced. She ran through a list of ideas: rewriting the tax code to encourage US investment; paid family leave; corporate profitsharing; and cutting student debt.

In a shoutout to the left, Clinton pushed reproductive freedom for women, equal pay, gay marriage.

But the former New York senator remained vague on details.

Husband Bill Clinton sat proudly on the side of the stage, next to daughter Chelsea and soninlaw Marc Mezvinsky.

Candidate Clinton got personal at several points in the speech, relating how her mother was abandoned and forced to work as a maid at 14.

Critics said the speech had been touted as being more personal and emotional than it turned out to be.

“It did not meet the hype on her personal narrative. She spoke well but without any emotional connection,” said Republican strategist Susan Del Percio.

“Maybe we’ll see the passion in the relaunch of the relaunch.”