Hillary Clinton is jumping back in the ring. The former
secretary of state will formally announce her 2016 bid Sunday, according
to the Guardian. The news that Clinton would announce this weekend was first reported by Business Insider.
Clinton will make it official through a message on social
media, then with an email to supporters and a video on her website,
according to the Guardian. She will then travel to Iowa and New Hampshire, CNN reported Friday morning. The announcement comes a little more than a week after Politico revealed Clinton's staff would be headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
In 2007, Clinton declared on a Sunday, writing on
her website, "I'm in and I'm in to win." This second effort at
fulfilling that original promise caps off years of speculation,
initially over whether she would try it at all. That was decided months
ago, but questions about everything from who she would hire to run the
coming campaign — it will be 35-year-old Robby Mook — to her plans for the "Ready for Hillary"
crew, have persisted. Clinton is expected to integrate a number of
those true believers into a larger organization including President
Barack Obama's top campaign pollster, Joel Benenson, and a slew of recently hired political operatives.
Unbeatable? Clinton enters the Democratic field as an overwhelming favorite. A Quinnipiac poll
released Wednesday focused strictly on how she would fare in general
election contests against a series of early Republican frontrunners,
essentially ignoring the possibility that Clinton could lose the
nominating contest. (The survey found Clinton losing support in
battleground states like Florida and Colorado.)
