Hillary Re-Re-Re-Re-Rebooted
In: Commentary, Band 140, Heft 3
ISSN: 0010-2601
The disclosure of the unusual arrangement, uncovered during a congressional inquiry into the Benghazi terrorist attack, has dogged Hillary Clinton for months, as she has dismissed allegations of wrongdoing, played down the FBI investigation into whether the server compromised national security, and struggled against the perception that she is dishonest, secretive, and untrustworthy. It's a losing battle. By the end of summer vacation, Clinton's poll numbers had become so worrisome, and the threat of Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden so real, that her top aides ran to the New York Times to reassure donors and Democratic elites that a change in strategy was coming. They aren't laughing because they must rec- ognize that the 'new focus' the Clinton campaign announced with such publicity is just the latest in a decades-long series of renovations, reboots, restarts, shifts of emphasis, changes in strategy, corrections in course. Adapted from the source document.