U.S. presidential election (6): the man behind Hillary Clinton’s campaign
Later today, Hillary Clinton will announce her long-expected bid to become the next US President. She was a good Secretary of State and I have reviewed here her account of that time in her memoirs “Hard Choices”. I think that she would make a fine President, but she has to win the Democratic nomination first (which should be easy) and then the contest with a Republican opponent (which might well be harder).
As an “Observer” newspaper piece today puts it:
“… will … the 18-month campaign to follow, be enough to reset voters’ opinions of Clinton, which have barely shifted over nearly 25 years of the Clintonland experience? It will be up to her clean-cut, 35-year-old political director, Robby Mook, to steer the candidate away from the campaign misadventure that doomed her 2008 effort to establish the Clintons as a dynastic political enterprise.
The Vermont-born Mook will be the first openly gay manager of a major presidential campaign. He takes the reins of the campaign with a track record as a low-key but formidable political operative.
Clinton advisers anticipate that he is close enough to the Clinton inner circle to be trusted, but experienced enough to challenge negative aspects of the Clinton package, from political self-entitlement to the blurred boundaries of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.”
You can read a profile of Robby Mook here.