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Hillary Clinton and the media
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Can Hillary Clinton Win More States Than Obama?
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Nov 21, 2014 8:01pm

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NEW YORK Two-hundred prominent Democratic strategists, former Clinton aides and donors, joined forces today for a day-long strategy meeting hosted by the pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC Ready for Hillary to coalesce their efforts, plot and plan for when and if Hillary Clinton runs for president.

The meeting, held at the Sheraton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, where the Clintons hold their annual Clinton Global Initiative summit, was made up of a series of closed-to-the-media strategizing panels and marked the beginning of the end of Ready for Hillary, which plans to shut down its operations once Clinton announces a run.

It also marked a turning point for Clintons potential 2016 campaign.

Although nobody today would flat out say it (hypotheticals like if and hope preceded all statements about her candidacy), the general sentiment among the panelists and attendees was: Shes running. And when she does, her supporters said, they will be ready.

Hopes run high, Marty Chavez, the former Albuquerque mayor and a senior adviser for Ready for Hillary, told reporters. The biggest takeaway I have is there are a lot of people who have her back if she says yes.

The attendees at the event included Correct the Records David Brock and Burns Strider, who were invited guests to last weekends 10th anniversary event forthe Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas, as well as political strategists Harold Ickes, James Carville and Paul Begala. Two people who have been mentioned as possible campaign managers for Clinton,Stephanie Shriock, the head of EMILYs List,and Guy Cecil, executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, also were there.

Hillary Clinton herself was not at the event. Super PAC rules would not allow her to go.

Very little was said about other possible Democratic presidential candidates, such as former Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia, who just this week became the first candidate to throw his hat in to the ring. The panelists said they saw Hillary Clinton as the most formidable candidate and that any concerns were not about a Hillary Clinton problem, but rather a problem for the Democratic Party, as a whole.

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Hillary Clinton is set to give a paid speech at a womens conference in Silicon Valley in February, an appearance that indicates her time on the speaking circuit is not yet coming to an end with a likely presidential campaign looming.

Clintons speech at the first-ever Watermark Silicon Valley Conference for Women was announced just this week, indicating it was a relatively new speaking commitment.

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Conference officials said they couldnt discuss whether Clinton was being paid for the speech and referred questions to the former secretary of states spokesman, Nick Merrill. Merrill did not respond to repeated emails asking whether it was a paid speech.

But sources familiar with the event said Clinton is indeed set to receive a speaking fee. The Feb. 24 appearance seems at odds with suggestions in the media that she is about to wind down her speaking schedule in the coming weeks.

It isnt clear that the speech says anything about Clintons time frame for declaring a decision about a second White House campaign. Her timetable is a topic of disagreement among her supporters: Some people think she is already being attacked and defined by Republicans and only adds to the perception that shes being coy the longer she waits. Others say she should stick to her stated time frame of early next year.

Clinton could, of course, cancel the appearance or decline a speaking fee if she announces a campaign before the speech. Its highly unlikely she would continue to give paid speeches once shes a candidate, something Republican Rudy Giuliani did in 2007 and took heat for.

But the fact that Clinton is still signing up for speeches also gives weight to what a number of people close to her say: that she hasnt completely made up her mind about running. The conference is about women in the workforce, an issue Clinton is also focused on at her familys foundation.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton, former US Secretary of State, listens before delivering keynote remarks at the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves summit, Friday Nov. 21, 2014 in New York.

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NEW YORK Hillary Rodham Clinton voiced support Friday for President Barack Obama's use of executive actions to protect about 5 million immigrants from deportation, setting up a sharp contrast with Republicans on an issue that could play a leading role in the next presidential campaign.

"I think the president took an historic step and I support it," Clinton said in an appearance at the New York Historical Society, embracing her fellow Democrat's moves to address immigration.

The former secretary of state, a potential Democratic presidential candidate, said Obama's actions were in line with previous moves by Democratic and Republican presidents alike and urged Congress to "follow the lead" of a measure approved in the Senate in 2013. She also placed the efforts in the context of families, many of whom she said are longtime residents raising children and paying taxes.

"This is about people's lives," she said, adding that it was about "people who serve us tonight, who prepared the food tonight."

It was Clinton's first public comments on Obama's immigration orders, which have been harshly criticized by many Republicans in Congress who accuse Obama of overstepping his executive powers. Clinton issued a statement shortly after Obama's speech Thursday night expressing support.

Charging hypocrisy, the Republican National Committee released a Web video earlier in the day that included the audio of an April 2008 Clinton speech in which she criticized President George W. Bush's use of signing statements and other means "to transform the executive into an imperial presidency."

Clinton spoke about the immigration plan during an interview with Walter Isaacson, the biographer and CEO of the Aspen Institute, at the event. Clinton said she was studying the life and presidency of Theodore Roosevelt and discussed the need for Americans to find a "common purpose."

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