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Hagan lost re-election in 2014. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call File Photo)

National Democrats want former Sen. Kay Hagan to mount another bid for Senate in the Tar Heel State. But in case the former senator declines, party officials have started to key in on other potential recruits.

Hagan did not rule out running in a Wednesday interview with a radio station in Boston, where shesserving as a resident fellow at Harvard Universitys Institute of Politics.

You know, Im not saying yes, and Im not saying no, Hagan told WBUR reporter Jeremy Hobson.

Hagan would be a top choice for Democrats to challenge Sen. Richard M. Burr in 2016, when the party mustnet five seats toensure Senate control. Democrats say Haganran a near-perfect campaign in 2014. They chalk up her loss to GOP Sen. Thom Tillisto a bad national environment.

But Democrats are working on a contingency plan if Hagan opts out.

With North Carolinashaping up to be a battleground in the presidential race, and with North Carolina shaping up to have the top gubernatorial race in the nation, its really going to be a fertileplace, and Democratswill have a strong candidate, said Morgan Jackson, a North Carolina Democratic operative.

State Treasurer Janet Cowell ranksamong the partys other recruits for a potential run.

Cowell, the first woman elected treasurer in North Carolina, has ties to the deep-pocketed business community in the state. It could help her raise money in what is likely to be one of the cycles most expensive contests.

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Senior Democrats are increasingly worried that Hillary Rodham Clinton is not ready to run for president, fearing that the clumsy and insular handling of the nine-day fracas over her private e-mails was a warning sign about the campaign expected to launch next month.

Few Democrats believe that the revelations about her unorthodox e-mail practices as secretary of state are a substantive issue that would damage Clinton with voters, and many said she performed adequately in a Tuesday news conference defending herself.

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But in interviews Wednesday with The Washington Post, current and former Democratic officeholders and operatives from across the country raised serious questions about her and her political teams strength and readiness for a 2016 presidential campaign.

Shes tried to put the day of reckoning off, but its come now, and I dont think she can stand another couple of weeks of this without her structure in place, said Jim Hodges, a former governor of South Carolina.

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Some Democrats said Clintons initial refusal to provide answers in the growing e-mail controversy smacked of arrogance and a worrisome bunker mentality and that the controversy was a self-inflicted wound.

Had this story been responded to in two or three days instead of in eight days, it would not be as big, said Robert Gibbs, a former White House press secretary under President Obama. They are the ones who put air in this balloon in a way that was not necessary at all. ... Its clear they lack an apparatus. Shes a candidate without a campaign.

A Clinton spokesman did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

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Hillary Clinton defends her exclusive use of private e-mail for "convenience" and for deleting those she deemed personal.

WASHINGTON Democrats closed ranks around Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday after her public explanation of her e-mail practices yet party officials in important election states appeared resigned to the prospect that her all-but-certain presidential campaign will be saddled with drama.

The mood among Democrats around the country suggested Clinton has work to do to bolster party enthusiasm as she nears the launch of her 2016 campaign, though there's still no sign she'll face a robust primary challenge.

Brady Quirk-Garvan, the Democratic Party chairman in Charleston, S.C., said the focus on Clinton's use of her private e-mail account as secretary of state leaves him concerned that side issues could overshadow the party's message.

"Every time we talk about e-mails, we aren't talking about how to grow the economy and the fact that President Obama has created jobs for the last 60 months straight," Quirk-Garvan said.

In Iowa, Cerro Gordo County Democratic chairman John Stone said he expected the e-mail issue to "burn out." But he also raised the possibility that "there will be more things" to come.

Clinton's closest advisers have been reaching out to Democratic leaders and other lawmakers on Capitol Hill, as well as influential progressive groups, in an effort to allay concerns. In conference calls over the past week, supporters in turn pressed Clinton to break her silence on the e-mail disclosures, which she did Tuesday at the United Nations.

"Those of us who strongly support her, we certainly have been given information," said Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich. "I'm satisfied with what I've received."

Much of the outreach has been led by longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin and press secretary Nick Merrill. Clinton herself does not appear to have spoken directly to top Democratic lawmakers or surrogates about the issue.

Rep. Trey Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican who is chairman of a House committee investigating Benghazi, said Wednesday that he wants an independent review of Clinton's e-mail server.

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