2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton was announced in a YouTube video, on April 12, 2015. The spouse of former President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton was the United States Senator from New York before attending as Secretary of State under President Barack Obama, an office she seized from 2009 unto 2013. Her candidature in the 2016 election is her second attempt at the presidency.
Although Hillary Clinton long deprived of that she would be running for president again after her defeat to Barack Obama in 2008, she has softly laid the underpinning for another presidential bid. While Secretary of State, she sustained to shape her political operation while Bill went nearby the world performing public service and political campaigning to retain the Clinton brand vigorously.
BACKGROUND OF 2016 BID
Clinton declared her decision to run for the 2008 presidential election on January 20, 2007. Beginning in the race, she was considered the frontrunner for the Democratic Party, and enthusiastically wanted her party's nomination. Clinton ran forward in the polls until Illinois Senator Barack Obama began pulling ahead following the South Carolina primary. In the lengthy primary battle that followed, during which she received more than 18 million votes, Clinton lost the nominee to Obama. Obama secured the general election against Arizona Republican Senator John McCain on November 4, 2008.
Once Clinton ended her 2008 campaign, there was the talk of her running again in 2012 or 2016. After she finished her occupancy as Secretary of State in 2013, rumors picked up sharply. In the time being, Clinton received over $11 million giving 51 paid speeches to various organizations. Her paid talks to Wall Street and Goldman Sachs, in particular, would later draw condemnation from campaign rival Bernie Sanders.
Expecting a future run, a campaign began to take shape in 2014, with an extensive donor network, practiced operatives, the Ready for Hillary and Priorities USA Action campaign political action committees (PACs), and further campaign infrastructure.
By September 2013, amidst incessant political and media speculation, Clinton said she was making an allowance for a run but was in no rush to decide. In late 2013, Clinton told "look carefully at what I think I can do and make that decision sometime next year"; and said in June 2014 that she would, "be on the way to making a decision before the end of the year."
While many political analysts came to accept during this time that Clinton would run, she grabbed a long time to make the decision. While Clinton supposed she spent much of the two years following her tenure as Secretary of State thinking about the probability of running for president again, she was also reserved about the prospect and seemed to some as reluctant to experience the disagreeable aspects of a major political campaign. Those around her were divided in their opinions, reportedly, with Bill Clinton said to be the most for her running again, Chelsea Clinton leaning towards it, but several of her closest assistants against it. She allegedly studied Obama's 2008 campaign to see what had gone right for Obama as compared to her campaign. Not until December 2014, throughout the time of the Clintons' annual winter vacation in the Dominican Republic, did she say she determined for sure that she would run again.
FUNDRAISING OF CAMPAIGN PROCESS
Hillary Clinton's campaign had good news to announce as it rang in the New Year — the campaign said Friday it raised $55 million in the final fundraising quarter of 2015 and $112 million in total for the year.
About $37 million of the year's last pull was in hard primary dollars, and $18 million was raised for the Democratic National Committee and state parties through the Hillary Victory Fund. The final quarter of the year put the campaign over its goal of raising $100 million for the year. The campaign has spent $74 million so far and now enters the election year with about $38 million in cash on hand.
In the final weeks of the year, Clinton operatives said they estimated her chief Democratic rival Bernie Sanders to outraise her in the fourth quarter. Sanders nearly matched Clinton in the third quarter raising $26 million to Clinton's $28 million. However, a spokesman for the Vermont Senator on Friday said the campaign was not releasing its end-of-year numbers until Saturday.
The Clinton campaign whispered Friday that it made history, raising more money than any non-incumbent ever has in a non-election year. The campaign said Clinton raised roughly the same amount as President Obama did in his 2011 during the off-year of his reelection campaign.
"Helping Democratic candidates win up and down the ticket is a top priority for Hillary Clinton which is why she is also proud to be doing her part to ensure Democrats have the resources we need to win," said campaign manager Robby Mook.
The campaign distinguished that more than 60 percent of donations came from women, and 94 percent of all donations in the final quarter of the year were $100 or less.
With many Clinton loyalists already tapped out after donating the maximum $2,700 contribution for the primary, Clinton's fundraising team has also been energetically courting new donors to keep the money coming in. It has transmitted high-profile replacements free events where they talk about the campaign and take questions from attendees, hoping to inspire fresh donor faces to become involved.
POSITIONS ON ISSUES
Clinton has concentrated her candidacy on several themes, comprising raising middle-class wages, intensifying women's rights, founding campaign finance reform, and refining the Affordable Care Act. Given the climate of unlimited campaign contributions following the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, Clinton has named for a constitutional amendment to limit "unaccountable money" in politics. She has faith in equal pay for equal work, to statement current deficits in how much women are paid to do the same jobs men do. Clinton has clearly focused on family issues and supports universal pre-K. On LGBT rights, she desires to see the right to same-sex marriage preserved in the constitution. Clinton holds that allowing undocumented immigrants to obligate a path to citizenship. Clinton has articulated support for Common Core. She says: "The unfortunate argument that's been going on around Common Core, it is very painful because the Common Core started off as a bipartisan effort. It was nonpartisan. It was not politicized. Iowa has had a testing system based on a core curriculum for a long time. Moreover, [speaking to Iowans] you see the value of it, you understand why that helps you organize your whole education system. Moreover, many states, unfortunately, haven't had that, and so don't know the value of a core, in this sense a Common Core." On December 2015, Clinton opened her comprehensive plans for regulating Wall Street financial activities and related. She suggests reining in the largest institutions to bound risky behavior, appointing active regulators, and holding executives accountable. Clinton is for maintaining American influence in the Middle East. She clashed with and criticized Trump's call to ban Muslims from the United States. She told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, "America cannot ever be neutral when it comes to Israel's security and survival."
Conclusion
As a presidential nominee in 2008, she opposed gay marriage, prevaricated on granting driver's licenses to people who were living in the U.S. illegally and tolerated heavy criticism from rival Barack Obama over her attitude on campaign finance.
During the opening week of her second presidential campaign, Clinton showed she had retooled her points to schedule with the views of progressive Democrats. She called for a constitutional amendment that would limit "unaccountable money" in politics. She said through her campaign that she supports same-sex marriage being recognized as a constitutional right in a pending Supreme Court case. After that, her campaign said she now supports state policies giving licenses to people in the country illegally.
Her choice to accept political donations from lobbyists may weaken her efforts to change the campaign finance system. Obama's push for a trade pact with 11 Pacific nations will put Clinton among the centrist wing of her party and union leaders who oppose the deal. Her campaign said she would be "watching carefully" efforts to negotiate a final agreement.