[ti:Hillary Clinton Announces 2016 Campaign for President]
[ar:Jim Tedder]
[al:In The News]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]"I'm running for president."
[00:01.63]Hillary Clinton kicks off her anticipated campaign
[00:05.62]for the presidency with a video posted on YouTube.
[00:10.13]With her second run for the White House,
[00:12.85]the former first lady and Secretary of State
[00:16.60]is hoping to become the first female president of the United States.
[00:21.79]In the campaign video, she says,
[00:24.89]"Everyday Americans need a champion. I want to be that champion."
[00:30.09]Ms. Clinton is expected to visit the early voting states of Iowa
[00:35.94]and New Hampshire shortly with a message of economic equality.
[00:40.60]She says, "So I'm hitting the road to earn your vote.
[00:45.25]Because it's your time. And I hope you'll join me in this journey."
[00:49.99]Ms. Clinton enters the 2016 presidential campaign
[00:54.59]as a favorite to win the Democratic nomination.
[00:58.49]Former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley
[01:01.99]and former Senator Jim Webb of Virginia are potential rivals,
[01:07.23]but neither has received much
[01:09.94]in the way of campaign contributions or support from the party.
[01:14.23]Charlie Cook of the Cook Political Report said,
[01:18.69]"In some way, Hillary is running against herself.
[01:22.63]She's got to show herself relevant in the 21st century."
[01:27.58]However the road to victory for Ms. Clinton will not be easy.
[01:32.88]On the Republican side, Senators Ted Cruz of Texas
[01:38.22]and Rand Paul of Kentucky have already announced their candidacy.
[01:43.62]There are many more Republicans getting ready to challenge Ms. Clinton.
[01:48.96]They include former Governor Jeb Bush and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida,
[01:55.16]Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin, Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey,
[02:00.78]and former Governor Rick Perry of Texas.
[02:03.87]Even former business executive Carly Fiorina said
[02:08.38]that she is "seriously considering running."
[02:11.53]Ms. Clinton has been a well-known figure in American politics
[02:16.23]for more than two decades since her husband,
[02:19.72]Bill Clinton, was elected to the White House in 1992.
[02:24.17]As first lady, Ms. Clinton led the failed effort
[02:28.57]to provide national health care.
[02:31.02]She later won an election to represent New York
[02:34.86]as a U.S. Senator prior to becoming Secretary of State.
[02:39.75]Political analyst Stuart Rothenberg feels Ms. Clinton's negative is her age.
[02:46.50]She's 67 and would be close to 70 if she were to take the presidency.
[02:52.95]Her announcement on YouTube is an attempt to reach out to young voters.
[02:58.50]Mr. Rothenberg noted, "We are a country and a culture these days
[03:03.79]where 15 minutes ago is ancient history,
[03:07.43]and voters always want something new and fresh."
[03:11.49]During an appearance on ABC's This Week,
[03:15.24]former Governor O'Malley emphasized this point saying,
[03:19.28]"the presidency of the United States
[03:22.06]is not some crown to be passed between two families."
[03:26.48]Ms. Clinton once famously said
[03:29.84]that her family was a target of the so-called "vast right-wing conspiracy."
[03:35.63]A recent Congressional inquiry on Benghazi, Libya
[03:41.80]revealed that Ms. Clinton used a private email server
[03:46.00]to conduct government business as Secretary of State.
[03:50.10]Ms. Clinton insisted that she did not violate any rules by using the private email,
[03:56.99]but Republicans were quick to denounce the practice.
[04:01.08]Senator Rubio of Florida said that,
[04:03.99]"If there was anything in those emails
[04:07.05]that was sensitive in nature, not just classified,
[04:11.16]God forbid, even sensitive, I think it puts national security at risk."
[04:16.84]Senator Rubio is planning to announce his own run
[04:20.99]for the White House later this week.
[04:23.33]The Clinton Global Initiative is a philanthropic foundation
[04:28.79]established by the former president
[04:31.39]and his family to improve the lives of people around the world.
[04:35.77]The foundation has accepted donations from foreign countries
[04:40.61]including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Australia, Norway and the Netherlands.
[04:47.30]Republican Senator Rand Paul,
[04:50.35]an announced candidate for the White House,
[04:53.14]criticized the foreign donations.
[04:55.59]In an interview with Politico, he said,
[04:59.68]"In countries that stone people to death for adultery
[05:04.13]and imprison people for adultery,
[05:07.13]this is the kind of thing you would think someone
[05:10.33]for women's rights would be standing up against,
[05:13.62]instead of accepting thinly veiled bribes."
[05:17.41]Ms. Clinton possesses some advantages
[05:21.26]over other candidates in the campaign for the presidency.
[05:25.16]"She's got experience, both domestic and foreign policy,"
[05:29.70]political analyst Stuart Rothenberg said.
[05:33.16]"She got rave reviews in terms of her energy
[05:37.10]and her enthusiasm in the work she did as Secretary of State,
[05:41.89]and that's a plus. Frankly, she's a woman, and that's a huge asset."
[05:47.59]Despite the email and foreign donations controversy,
[05:52.25]the former Secretary of State still leads all potential rivals
[05:58.70]according to the Washington Post-ABC News poll taken at the end of March.
[06:04.39]Professor Larry Sabato, of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics,
[06:10.83]said that the early polls are "worthless." He added
[06:15.63]"it's impossible to project a general election for president yet.
[06:20.28]That depends on events that haven't happened,
[06:23.28]that depends on how popular or unpopular President Obama,
[06:27.07]the incumbent Democrat is in the fall of 2016.
[06:30.87]It depends on where the economy is.
[06:32.82]It depends on whether we are in a hot war or not.
[06:36.28]There are too many unknowns for anyone to project the 2016 election,
[06:41.57]that is anyone who has any sense."
[06:43.57]When Ms. Clinton ran for the presidency in 2008,
[06:47.76]she led then-Senator Obama by as many as 33 points in the same poll.
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