Meet the most influential women on Hillary Clinton's 2016 team
Mandy Grunwald, 57, Senior Communications Adviser:
When Mandy Grunwald was an honor student at Harvard, her mother—who would die of breast cancer shortly after at age 57—sent a note of encouragement that the media strategist keeps framed today: “Don’t let them get you down. Never compromise. Love, Mommy.” If there was one time to invoke those words during Grunwald’s high-speed political career, it was the ignoble collapse of Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential race. But Grunwald won’t go there. “I’m not one to go backwards,” she insists. “I don’t think it’s productive.”
Her arrival was read as a smoke signal that Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren definitely will not run. That’s because Warren is a Grunwald client, too—as are four more of the Senate’s nine Democratic women: Minnesota’s Amy Klobuchar, Wisconsin’s Tammy Baldwin, New Hampshire’s Jeanne Shaheen, and Maryland’s retiring Barbara Mikulski. Grunwald has also worked for a bevy of men, ranging from the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan to comic-turned-senator Al Franken.
Close Clinton watchers see Grunwald’s Elizabeth Warren-influenced fingerprints in the candidate’s emerging populist rhetoric. Grunwald won’t comment on that. But it’s worth remembering that this isn’t the first time we’ve seen Clinton/Grunwald messaging that takes on big business. Clinton’s 2008 race featured the Grunwald commercial “Level,” in which the candidate attacks “special interests” and companies that “ship jobs overseas.”
This is the first in a Fortune series profiling the top female members of Hillary Clinton’s team for the 2016 presidential campaign.
https://fortune.com/2015/05/26/hillary-clintons-team-2016/
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