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The science is clear: The earth is round, the sky is blue, and #vaccineswork. Let’s protect all our kids. #GrandmothersKnowBest
Former Secretary of State and Senator Hillary Clinton, weighing in on Twitter about the anti-vaccination movement, which is responsible for recent measles outbreaks. Clinton, who wasn’t as plain-spoken about her support for same-sex marriage during an appearance on NPR’s Fresh Air, seemed to be reacting to statements from Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) expressing support for parents who choose not to vaccinate. Both are potential 2016 presidential candidates, as is Clinton.
Let me state unequivocally that I have no intention of running for U.S. Senator of Massachusetts.
— Mitt Romney, quoted by CBS News.
Listen, we’re writing a Hillary Clinton book now, we have a research team that’s in Little Rock, so we’re not going to be shy about it… We’re going to be active. We’re going to get whatever we have to to share with the American people the truth about Hillary and Bill Clinton.
— RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, telling Bloomberg that the Republican party has already started a major opposition research effort against Hillary Clinton.
When it comes to making predictions about 2016, there are lots of important numbers to follow. The unemployment rate. Consumer confidence. The president’s approval rating. The horse race polls. But, in my mind, the most important data point to follow is the one which measures Americans’ desire to stay the current course or try a different one in 2016. … History tells us that the odds of a Clinton presidency are long. In the modern era (well, really since Andrew Jackson in 1836), no Democrat has succeeded a 2-term Democratic president.
In two solid years of being pitted against Hillary Clinton in polls, Bush has not led a single one, and trails her in the latest RealClearPolitics average by over 9%. That’s a poorer margin than for Ryan (6%), Christie (7%), and Huckabee (8%), and about the same as for Paul. Ted Cruz is the only regularly polled putative GOP candidate running significantly worse than Bush against HRC (an RCP average gap of 13%), and that’s largely because he’s far less well-known.
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Amount Warren Buffett gave — the maximum donation allowed — to Ready for Hillary last quarter. It was “his first-ever check to the sort of independent political groups that he’s scorned in the past,” Bloomberg reports.The group has raised more than $11 million to finance its efforts to lay the groundwork for a Clinton presidential campaign.
The failures of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy are manifest. It’s almost as if the whole world is on fire right now.
— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), doing his best to tie Hillary Clinton to President Obama as he offered sharp criticism of the “Obama-Clinton” foreign policy, the New York Times reports.
Sometimes she’d be in those meetings and I’d think, ‘Please don’t let her yell at me.’
— Clinton White House aide Joan Baggett, quoted in a newly-released Miller Center oral history, about Hillary Clinton.
Bill and I are going to have to have some interesting things to talk about. Look, I’ll still like him when Jeb beats Hillary.
— Former President George W. Bush, quoted by Business Insider, on his brother’s potential 2016 presidential campaign.
She embodies Washington. She embodies that old, tired top-down approach from the government. I think in the states as governors, we offer a much better alternative and I think there’s a number of us who would be good prospects out there.
— Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), quoted by The Hill, on Hillary Clinton.
