The 2016 presidential contest is more than two years away, and Hillary Rodham Clinton has not decided whether she will be a part of it. But the race to define her potential candidacy is well underway — and far outside her control.
Already, independent super PACs have sprouted to boost or bludgeon the former secretary of state, and a television miniseries and documentary are in the works — projects one person close to Clinton called “ill-conceived.”
Clinton is trying to hover above the partisan fray for as long as possible, but some of her allies appear to be placing her back in it. Emily’s List, a group that works to elect Democratic women who support abortion rights, is staging a town hall meeting Friday in Iowa to start making the case for putting a woman in the White House.
On Monday, the Republican National Committee tried to pop the Clinton balloonby threatening to refuse to partner with NBC and CNN in future presidential debates unless they stop the production of planned projects about Clinton’s life.
Scarred after two consecutive defeats in presidential contests, Republicans are wary of allowing another Democratic candidate to become a seemingly untouchable luminary, as Barack Obama became in the run-up to the 2008 election.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus wrote in letters to network executives that the NBC miniseries and CNN documentary are a “political ad masquerading as an unbiased production.”
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