Tim Miller, the executive director of America Rising, an anti-Clinton communications and research super PAC, argues in talking points to other Republicans that Clinton is tying herself to Obama by working with and hiring many of his staffers ahead of her all-but-certain 2016 run.
“By hiring his key political and policy staff and making no public moves to place clear distance between herself and the President on issues likely to be front and center in the coming Congress, Clinton is signaling that she’s not just from the same party as the President, but that she’s an Obama Democrat, who will back his policies, pursue his agenda, and represent a Third Term of the Obama Administration,” Miller argues in a memo to the group’s supporters.
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“Beyond Clinton’s issues agenda, her campaign’s political leadership is shaping up to be staffed not by her own former campaign advisers, but rely heavily on President Obama’s 2012 campaign leadership,” Miller writes. “Put bluntly: the state of the Obama-Clinton 2016 Union is strong.”
