memeorandum: 'I'm running for President': Hillary Clinton enters 2016 race (Daily Mail)

7:40 PM ET, April 12, 2015

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Hillary Clinton Announces 2016 Presidential Bid — Ending two years of speculation and coy denials, Hillary Rodham Clinton announced on Sunday that she would seek the presidency for a second time, immediately establishing herself as the likely 2016 Democratic nominee.

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:

Why Hillary Clinton Is Probably Going to Win the 2016 Election — This is not a toss-up. — Shares — Unless the economy goes into a recession over the next year and a half, Hillary Clinton is probably going to win the presidential election. The United States has polarized into stable voting blocs …

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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

Grandmama Mia! — WASHINGTON — WHEN my brother Michael was a Senate page, he delivered mail to John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, who had offices across the hall from each other. — He recalled that Kennedy never looked up or acknowledged his presence, but Nixon would greet him with a huge smile.

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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:

Brooklyn Hit With Anti-Hillary Street Art — A source sends along these photos from Brooklyn today of anti-Hillary Clinton signs everywhere. Clinton is expected to announce her presidential campaign later today. The campaign's headquarters are located in Brooklyn.

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Daily Mail:

'I'm running for President': Hillary Clinton enters 2016 race — BAGGAGE: Mrs. Clinton's time in the Obama administration may be her albatross, including her stewardship of the State Department before, during and after the 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya — TRANSCRIPT: HILLARY'S LAUNCH VIDEO - ‘GETTING STARTED’

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Scared Monkeys and Ed Driscoll

Niall Stanage / The Hill:

Hillary: 'I'm running for president' — Hillary Clinton will make a second bid for the White House, she announced Sunday in a video posted to her new campaign website. — “I'm running for president,” the Democrat says in the video, adding that “everyday Americans need a champion.

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Maureen Callahan / New York Post:

Hillary Clinton faces scandal amid expectant presidential run — Expected to announce her presidential run Sunday, Hillary Clinton has been attempting to rebrand herself: She's Hillary 2.0, campaigning out of Brooklyn, a more accessible, relatable candidate who learned the lessons of her bruising …

Annie Karni / Politico:
Hillary Clinton readies presidential launch

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Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:
Hillary Clinton Makes it Official: 'I'm Running for President'

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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
For Republicans, ‘Stop Hillary’ campaign begins in earnest

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Luis Martinez / ABC News: John Kerry Praises Hillary Clinton, Plans to Avoid ‘Hurly Burly’ of 2016 Race

Jesse Byrnes / The Hill: Obama says Clinton would be an ‘excellent president’

New York Times:

A New Phase in Anti-Obama Attacks — It is a peculiar, but unmistakable, phenomenon: As Barack Obama's presidency heads into its twilight, the rage of the Republican establishment toward him is growing louder, angrier and more destructive. — Republican lawmakers in Washington and around …

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Nancy LeTourneau / Washington Monthly:
What Divides Us — By now you might have read what Dick Cheney …

Discussion: Progress Pond

Washington Post:

Thousands dead, few prosecuted … On a rainy night five years ago, Officer Coleman “Duke” Brackney set off in pursuit of a suspected drunk driver, chasing his black Mazda Miata down rural Arkansas roads at speeds of nearly 100 miles per hour. When the sports car finally came to rest in a ditch …

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Hadas Gold / Politico:

John Dickerson to replace Bob Schieffer on ‘Face the Nation’ — CBS News political director John Dickerson has been named the next host of “Face the Nation,” host Bob Schieffer announced Sunday. — Dickerson's first turn in the anchor chair will take place this summer …

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John F. Burns / New York Times:

The Things I Carried Back — CAMBRIDGE, England — THE light was fading on the hills above the Arno, and my closest friend in the careworn ranks of foreign correspondents was sitting cross-legged on a canopied Chinese daybed, in a lovely old tree-shaded house in his native village, a brisk walk from the heart of Florence.

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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:

Oh Hill no! Clinton's stale presidential plan wrong for nation — America's moved on, but Hillary hasn't. — More than five years ago, a Clinton confidant matter-of-factly described for me Hillary's Plan. She would resign as secretary of state after President Obama's first term …

Discussion: Roger's Rules and The Gateway Pundit