As she explores another presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton often says anyone who seeks the White House needs a compelling message and an agenda for the country.
Clinton has announced no decisions about her political future but she is beginning to describe themes that could animate a future campaign.
At a Thursday night rally for Tom Wolf, the front-running gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania, Clinton described a Democratic Party that “stands for families, stands for working people, stands for fairness and justice.”
Pointing to equal pay for women, a boost in the minimum wage and stronger family leave policies, she declared, “a 20th century economy will not work for 21st century families. It is past time for a fresh start.”
Wolf, who faces Republican Gov. Tom Corbett in next month’s election, has used the “fresh start” tagline during his campaign but Clinton adopted it, an indication of how she might campaign during President Barack Obama’s final two years. It was Clinton’s first appearance at a public campaign rally this fall and came before about 1,000 Democrats at an event near Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was adopted and the U.S. Constitution was signed.
As Democrats try to maintain their Senate majority and win governors’ races, Clinton has embarked on an extensive campaign schedule on behalf of her party. She is helping several Democratic women on the ballot, including those in states where Obama remains unpopular like North Carolina’s Sen. Kay Hagan and Senate candidates Alison Lundergan Grimes of Kentucky and Michelle Nunn of Georgia.
She’ll headline events next week in Colorado, Nevada, Kentucky and Michigan and travels to New Hampshire in early November to boost Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Gov. Maggie Hassan in the nation’s first presidential primary state.
During her summertime book tour, Clinton stumbled over questions about her family’s wealth, at one point telling an interviewer that she and former President Bill Clinton were “dead broke” when they left the White House because of legal bills. Mrs. Clinton can now command $200,000 and more for paid speeches, even though she says many of the events have benefited her family’s philanthropic foundation.
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