Meet the fossil-fuel loving hedge fund billionaire trying to save Hillary
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Hillary Clinton hasn't exactly been a lion in winter during her slow march toward the Democratic nomination. To be sure, her narrow win Saturday in Nevada seems to shore up her chances of defeating Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and winning the Democratic presidential nomination that will be doled out right here in Philadelphia in July; polls do show that so far she's holding onto enough black and Latino support to probably get wins in South Carolina and some other early Southern primary states. Still, the Sanders campaign has had the Clinton-juggernaut-that-wasn't running a bit scared.
The self-proclaimed "democratic socialist" nearly won in Iowa, short just a handful of votes and maybe a coin flip or two. Sanders then trounced Clinton in the first-in-the-nation primary in New Hampshire before Saturday's hard-fought Clinton win in Nevada. The Vermonter is walloping the former secretary of state among most voters under 30. Shocking numbers of Democrats, in exit polls, have questioned Clinton's honesty and integrity.
What's most surprising is that the Clinton brain trust has abandoned its natural instinct to hide its anxieties from the world.
The New York Times reported last week that Clinton's top fundraisers and strategists had an emergency meeting to discuss ways to retool the campaign.
What struck me about the piece was not so much the "who" or the "what" as the "where."
Robby Mook, the Clinton campaign manager, sat at the head of a conference table in the New York office of Clinton donor and Wall Street investor Marc Lasry, according to accounts from people in the room.
There it is! There it is, everybody! Even with Clinton bleeding support from the Democrats' liberal base under Sanders' attacks about her all-too-cozy ties with Wall Street, her campaign retreated to the refuge of a hedge fund billionaire when it was at its low point. Just like Marco Rubio got stuck on his scripted talking points in that GOP debate because he didn't know what else to do, Hillary Clinton returns to the financial district and her alliance with billionaire donors because she doesn't know where else to go. At this point it should be fairly obvious that close relationships with hedge-funders and other powerful corporations is not a bug infecting the Clinton campaign. It's a feature.
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