*'Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times,' says the multimillionaire politician in a launch video *Her chief of staff stepped on her big moment with an email to donors saying, 'I wanted to make sure you heard it first from me'
*Clinton's press office left an embarrassing typo in its press announcement, saying that she had 'fought children and families all her career'
*Official campaign website is full of biographical material but includes no policy statements or issue platforms
*Republican Party fires its opening salvo: 'Americans need a president they can trust and voters do not trust Hillary Clinton'
*Hillary will start her 'listening tour' in Iowa and New Hampshire without huge fanfare, and then have a more formal launch event in May
*Wunderkind campaign manager, 35, was a child when she was first lady and didn't live through her defining White House scandals
Hillary Rodham Clinton is running for president, leaning on a message of middle-class rescue and claims that America's economy is 'still stacked in favor of those at the top,' according to a campaign video that went online Sunday afternoon.
'I'm getting ready to do something,' Clinton says in the brief ad, following a series of clips of ordinary-looking Americans describing what they're 'getting ready' for.
'I'm running for president,' she says.
'Everyday Americans need a champion, and I want to be that champion.' That message is a daring one, given Clinton's wealth. When she left the U.S. State Department in 2013, her financial disclosure report showed that her combined net worth with her husband was between $5.2 and $25.5 million. Millions more rolled in when she published her memoirs.
She famously claimed last year that she and former president Bill Clinton were 'dead broke' whenthey left the White House in 2001 – when they moved into a palatial home in a tree-lined New York City suburb.
Clinton's chief of staff John Podesta pushed a similar 'middle-class' message, but stepped on her announcement with his own email to a group of donors.
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Poster Comment:
From her mother’s own childhood – in which she was abandoned by her parents – to her work going door-to-door for the Children’s Defense Fund to her battling to create the Children’s Health Insurance Program, she’s fought children and families all her career. Clinton's press office left an embarrassing typo in its press announcement, saying that she had 'fought children and families all her career' Freudian slip? LOL
