A road map Hillary Clinton did not follow to the White House
A road map Hillary Clinton did not follow to the White House
By Dan Morain - NOVEMBER 15, 2016 9:01 AM
On the night before Thanksgiving in 2014, an email from huma@clintonemail.com went to Hillary Clinton’s brain trust, Cheryl Mills, Robbie Mook and John Podesta. The subject line read “Ace Smith.”
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Smith and his firm, SCN Strategies, are among the most successful Democratic campaign firms in the state and country. In 2008, he ran Clinton’s 2008 winning primary campaigns in California and Texas. And in 2014, he was making a pitch for a position in Clinton’s 2016 campaign; he didn’t get it.
“Today, you are a fully known quantity and a second-time candidate for President of the United States,” Smith wrote, setting forth how Clinton might announce her candidacy and frame her campaign. “As such you will be expected to have a clear and deep rationale for your candidacy from the first day of the campaign.”
And he boiled it down to one line: “It’s about a plan for the middle class.”
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