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Hillary Clinton is returning to Iowa

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - 5:53pm

(CNN) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Hillary Clinton is headed back to Iowa on October 29, according to a Democratic source with knowledge of the trip.

The former first lady's visit comes just a little more than a month since she returned to Iowa after a six year hiatus. Clinton stumped for Bruce Braley, Iowa's Democratic Senate nominee, and other Iowa Democrats at the 37th annual - and final - Harkin Steak Fry in September. She had last visited the state in 2008.

Braley is currently locked in a tight race to succeed Harkin in the Senate with Republican Joni Ernst.

A number of big name Democrats have come to Iowa to help Braley. Vice President Joe Biden will stump for the Senate hopeful at an event in Davenport on Monday and first lady Michelle Obama stumped for him earlier this week.

Any visit Clinton makes to Iowa - the crucially important first-in-the-nation caucus state - is immediately seen through the lens of 2016 politics given that the former first lady is widely seen as the Democratic frontrunner for president and has admitted that she is considering a run.

Clinton's October visit to stump for Democrats in Iowa comes near the end of her prolonged push for Democrats across the country. Clinton has headlined political events in California, Colorado, Michigan, Kentucky, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Florida in the last month. And is expected to return to New Hampshire and Georgia by election day.

While all of these events have been for Democrats seeking to win in November, the campaigning is also a way for Clinton to satisfy Democrats who expect their potential future presidential nominee to help the party in the years before the run.

By election day, Clinton is expected to visit over 15 states in her midterm push.

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Hillary Clinton LOVES Coffee | Overheard On The Hill | msnbc – Video


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JULIA ROBERTS shout out to Lesbians & Hillary Clinton! GLSEN 2014 – Video


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Hillary Clinton is a bright spot on a gloomy Democratic election landscape

SAN FRANCISCO In this midterm election season, it may not be good to be a Democrat but it is very good to be Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The presumptive Democratic front-runner for 2016 is among her partys best assets to raise money and energize voters amid a gloomy election landscape for Democrats this fall, and she is campaigning hard even on behalf of apparent lost causes.

As a pair of events this week in California illustrated, Clintons efforts to raise money and get out the vote for Democratic congressional and gubernatorial candidates often dovetail with her own political agenda. Her first political season after stepping down as secretary of state has combined political boosterism for Democrats including in key presidential states with high-dollar fundraising and lucrative paid speeches.

The appearances give revealing clues as to what kind of candidate Clinton might be in two years emphasizing womens issues and striving to thread the needle between her hawkish, centrist history and the more liberal base that rejected her in favor of Barack Obama in 2008.

Here in San Francisco on Monday, Clinton gave a spirited call to arms to Democrats as she road-tested what is likely to be her economic message if she runs again. The November midterms, she said, come down to a simple question: Whos on your side?

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton urged Kentucky voters to put another crack in that glass ceiling and send Alison Lundergan Grimes (D) to the Senate during a rally in Louisville on Wednesday. (AP)

She sounded close to her partys populist marrow when she decried the erosion of economic security for many working Americans, and a long way from her tone-deaf remark earlier this year about being dead broke when she and Bill Clinton left the White House in 2000.

Its time to elect leaders who will fight for everyone to get a fair shot at the American dream, Hillary Clinton said, adding proudly that more than 100 women are running as Democratic candidates for Congress this year. I cant think of a better way to make Congress start working for American families again than electing every last one of them.

Clinton was the headliner at a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) event billed as the Ultimate Womens Power Luncheon, with ticket prices ranging from $500 a person to $32,400 per couple, for a total of $1.4 million raised. House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was the undercard. Organizers said about 800 people attended.

Pelosi, who was speaker before Democrats lost the House in 2010, joked that while that made her the highest-ranking woman in U.S. politics, Id like to give up that title.

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Hillary Clinton sharpens her stump speech

SAN FRANCISCO Continuing her 2014 evolution from mostly apolitical figure to fierce partisan, Hillary Rodham Clinton is accusing Republicans of national amnesia about their own failings in office and telling Democrats they will have themselves to blame if they dont come out to vote in midterm elections.

This is our chance -- our chance to elect Democrats who are fighting to jump-start the middle class, Clinton said at a $1.4 million Democratic fund-raising luncheon here Monday. Our chance to elect Democrats who are working for better jobs, better wages, for an economy that works for everybody.

Were in the home stretch, she continued, and it all comes down to who shows up.

After President Obama and other Democrats worked hard to avert financial disaster and begin rebuilding the U.S. economy after 2008, it is truly regrettable [that] we are having to work so hard to elect and reelect Democrats, Clinton said.

Its as though the other side wants to cast an air of amnesia, over the 2014 midterms, she said, warming to the theme.

You know, we werent really on the brink of the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression; we werent really fighting two wars; we werent really worrying about what was happening if the economy fell so far and peoples livelihoods and their homes and their healthcare and everything else they were depending on was swept away.

That didnt happen, seems to the other side, Clinton said. Were here to remind them and all of us, it did happen.

Although her own 2008 presidential loss had little to do with turnout, she playfully invoked it to remind Democrats of the dangers of staying home.

You never know what can happen in an election. You cant take anything for granted. You just have to get out there and work. I dont think any of us want to wake up the day after the election and wish we had done more, she said.

Clinton is also road-testing an unabashedly women-centered economic message heavy on outrage over pay inequality and the professional costs women pay to both raise families and bring in a paycheck.

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