Business Insider: Hillary to announce this weekend

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Ed Morrissey

April 9, 2015

 

Looks like someone needs a narrative change. Business Insider’s Hunter Walker reports from a source within Clintonland that Hillary Clinton will finally announce her intent to run for the Democratic presidential nomination, perhaps as soon as Saturday:

 

 

A source with knowledge of Hillary Clinton’s plans has confirmed that she will officially announce her 2016 presidential bid on Saturday or Sunday. This will be imminently followed by campaign travel. …

 

She has been ramping up her presidential preparations including leasing office space for a headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, and hiring key staffers.

 

On Tuesday, CNN reported Clinton’s official announcement was “likely only days away.”

 

 

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Why announce on a weekend (assuming that Hunter Walker got this right) when most people aren’t paying attention to the news? For most candidates, an announcement allows a candidate to draw lots of attention to themselves, but that may be a bug rather than a feature for Hillary. At the end of Walker’s article, another source laughs that Marco Rubio’s rollout on Monday will get trumped by Hillary’s announcement over the weekend, but that doesn’t make any sense at all. After all, the idea would be to cut off the press interest of an announcement short by scheduling yours immediately afterward, not before. Team Hillary may be hoping that the press will only have a short window before chasing the next 2016 squirrel in Rubio’s candidacy, pushing the media to apply scrutiny to the Republican rather than herself. In that sense, Sunday works even better for Hillary than Saturday.

 

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