Clinton's big plan to win the presidency is reportedly to just 'run out the clock'
In the wake of renewed interest in her private email server and her family's non-profit organization, Hillary Clinton reportedly has a new strategy to win the White House this fall: "Run out the clock." Politico's Annie Karni says that's how Clinton confidants sum up their candidate's thinking, as she seeks to dance fleet-footedly through the latest minefield of controversies surrounding her presidential aspirations.
Earlier this week, the FBI announced it had uncovered nearly 15,000 more emails from Clinton's private server that were not disclosed by her legal team during the initial email dump in December 2014. The emails themselves reveal that many foreign donors to her family's organization, the Clinton Foundation, also received access to Clinton while she was serving as secretary of state under President Obama. While no smoking gun exists, the optics, as they say, aren't great.
That's got Team Clinton looking to run out the next 75 days until Election Day on Nov. 8, Karni reports. "Clinton's team thinks 'they can ride out' any negative reaction to [the emails]," Karni writes. "'That doesn't mean no response,' one Clinton team insider said, 'but a muted one rather than a five-alarm fire.'" This decision apparently stems from the candidate's staunch belief that the entire email conspiracy is nothing but an unfounded partisan attack, and is rooted her confidence that rival Donald Trump's "profound weaknesses" will sink him regardless — read more on Clinton's thoroughly uninspiring strategy at Politico.
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Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
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