Don't look now: Hillary's back
BY BEN KAMISAR AND AMIE PARNES - 04/01/17 04:46 PM EDT
Hillary Clinton is moving back into the spotlight as the vanquished Democratic presidential nominee seeks to carve out her role during the Trump administration. It’s a step she's taking cautiously after stepping away from the political arena for roughly two months at the urging of her friends and associates. During that time, she emerged in public only for an occasional speech or college appearance.
But March represented a turning point as Clinton ratcheted up her opposition to Trump on Twitter and made three public speeches. With her new rallying cry of "Resist, persist, insist, enlist," Clinton is keeping up her fight against Trump while giving Democrats space to find a new person to carry the torch in 2020. “She’s always been someone who gets out there and fights for what she thinks is right,” one former Clinton campaign staffer told The Hill. “She’s striking an appropriate balance. She still has an appreciation that she’s not the face of the Democratic Party and people don’t want her to be ... but having worked for her and having seen how hard she fights, I’d be disappointed if she spent the rest of her career in the woods.”
For a politician who held White House aspirations for years, Clinton’s November loss — which came despite a victory in the popular vote — likely weighed heavy. In the months after 2008 primary loss to then-Sen. Barack Obama, Clinton quickly reemerged first on the stump and then as Obama’s secretary of State.
But 2016 was different. After her defeat, she receded back into private life. Clinton sightings became rare, with her picture occasionally taken by people who stumbled upon her during walks in the woods near her Chappaqua, N.Y. home. A confidant familiar with Clinton’s thinking said her biggest concern coming out of the November election was party unification. To that point, she has spent some time in recent weeks talking to millennials, activists and others who are working to keep Democratic Party strong, a source close to Clinton said. At the same time, she has stepped into the fray to criticize Trump on hot-button issues like the travel ban and healthcare.
http://thehill.com/news/campaign/326805-dont-look-now-hillarys-back
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