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Clinton Campaign Emails: Updates From the Latest WikiLeaks Disclosure Clinton Campaign Emails: How to Deal With Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden
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Right Now: The Times is examining the emails and will be posting the results.Right Now: The Times is examining the emails and will be posting the results.
The latest trove of documents released by WikiLeaks includes thousands of pages of emails between John D. Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, and aides, Clinton family members and outside donors all angling for position and power within Mrs. Clinton’s then-nascent campaign.The latest trove of documents released by WikiLeaks includes thousands of pages of emails between John D. Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, and aides, Clinton family members and outside donors all angling for position and power within Mrs. Clinton’s then-nascent campaign.
Last week, a set of Mr. Podesta’s emails were disclosed that included potentially damaging excerpts from private paid speeches Mrs. Clinton delivered to Wall Street executives in which she praised “open trade and open borders” and lamented that her personal wealth made her “kind of far removed” from the struggles of the middle class.Last week, a set of Mr. Podesta’s emails were disclosed that included potentially damaging excerpts from private paid speeches Mrs. Clinton delivered to Wall Street executives in which she praised “open trade and open borders” and lamented that her personal wealth made her “kind of far removed” from the struggles of the middle class.
The latest leaked emails show Mrs. Clinton’s campaign aides trying to grapple with that reality, and establish a campaign message that could position her, a career politician and Washington insider, as an appealing agent of change. But they also show tensions between an aide, Douglas J. Band, and the Clintons’ daughter, Chelsea, and reveal concerns that former President Bill Clinton was “losing it badly” ahead of the New Hampshire primary, when it became clear that his wife would lose by a wide margin to Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. The latest leaked emails show Mrs. Clinton’s campaign aides trying to grapple with that reality, and establish a campaign message that could position her, a career politician and Washington insider, as an appealing agent of change.
The Clinton campaign has not verified the authenticity of the emails, and a spokesman has pointed to Russian hackers who the United States government has said used WikiLeaks to release hacked documents that could help sway the election in Donald J. Trump’s favor.The Clinton campaign has not verified the authenticity of the emails, and a spokesman has pointed to Russian hackers who the United States government has said used WikiLeaks to release hacked documents that could help sway the election in Donald J. Trump’s favor.
Despite statements by Mrs. Clinton and her allies insisting she hadn’t made up her mind about seeking the presidency in 2016, the emails reveal that her advisers had begun to test messages and contemplate a campaign strategy at least two years before she officially declared her candidacy in April 2015.
Mr. Podesta, who would become campaign chairman, and Robby Mook, the eventual campaign manager, grappled with how to best position Mrs. Clinton, a career politician, as a change agent, how much to play up the history-making potential of her candidacy, and how to address anger over income inequality.
“Gender will be a big field and volunteer motivator, but it won’t close the deal,” Mr. Mook wrote to Mr. Podesta and Cheryl Mills, another Clinton adviser, in March 2014.
“The real challenge,” Ms. Mills wrote, “is that this likely will be when people want experience and we got so burned by that narrative” in the 2008 campaign Barack Obama that “we won’t go back to it, even though it might be right for now.”
In 2015, the Clinton campaign had to deal with escalating chatter about a potential run by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Donors phoned in reports on Mr. Biden’s behind-the-scenes manuevers to advisers like Neera Tanden, who relayed them back to Mr. Podesta. Doug Elmendorf, a lobbyist and longtime Clinton supporter, emailed her campaign manager to grouse about one supporter in particular: Linda Lipsen, head of the trial lawyers association.
“I get multiple freak out calls every morning and I try to talk everyone off the ledge and not bug u all,” Mr. Elmendorf wrote. “But linda is in a different category.” Ms. Lipsen had complained about not getting enough care and feeding from the campaign at a time when she was working members of her trade association and trying to keep them from considering Mr. Biden.
For all the advanced planning, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign aides appeared blindsided by the popularity of Senator Bernie Sanders’s populist message. Concern over Mrs. Clinton’s economic message seemed to reach a breaking point in the period after Mrs. Clinton lost to Mr. Sanders by 21 percentage points in the New Hampshire primary.
“Message needs to be more positive, upbeat, hopeful,” an adviser wrote to Mr. Podesta. “Bernie is saying we can change the world. Her msg is ‘No, we can’t’ because…”
The adviser expressed particular concern about young voters gravitating to Mr. Sanders’s promise for revolution. “Bernie’s ads feature young ppl saying why they are voting / supporting him,” she wrote. “Hillary’s ads need to be young people — all under 45 and a smattering of older ones — validating her.”
In the fall and winter of 2011, an increasingly bitter dispute was breaking out between a top Clinton aide, Mr. Band, and Chelsea Clinton, over the blurred lines between the Clinton Foundation and Mr. Band’s consulting company, Teneo.In the fall and winter of 2011, an increasingly bitter dispute was breaking out between a top Clinton aide, Mr. Band, and Chelsea Clinton, over the blurred lines between the Clinton Foundation and Mr. Band’s consulting company, Teneo.
Ms. Clinton had sought to reorganize and professionalize the foundation, angering Mr. Band and a fellow longtime Clinton aide, Justin Davidson, who resisted. “Doug apparently kept telling my dad I was trying to push him out, take over,” Ms. Clinton told Mr. Podesta in a November 2011 email. Ms. Clinton had sought to reorganize and professionalize the foundation, angering Mr. Band and a fellow longtime Clinton aide, Justin Cooper, who resisted. “Doug apparently kept telling my dad I was trying to push him out, take over,” Ms. Clinton told Mr. Podesta in a November 2011 email.
But the next month, Ms. Clinton was less understanding. In December, she emailed Mr. Podesta and several aides to Mrs. Clinton regarding a Clinton Foundation aide who worked for Mr. Clinton. The aide, Ilya Aspis, had been calling members of Parliament in Britain “on behalf of President Clinton” for Teneo clients, including the chief executive of Dow Chemical. She also mentions that another former White House aide, Sara Latham, had begun working for Teneo but then quit “because she was so upset, partly because of what Doug and Declan asked her to do/pretend was happening for their clients at Davos.” But the next month, Ms. Clinton was less understanding. In December, she emailed Mr. Podesta and several aides to Mrs. Clinton regarding a Clinton Foundation aide who worked for Mr. Clinton. The aide, Ilya Aspis, had been calling members of Parliament in Britain “on behalf of President Clinton” for Teneo clients, including the chief executive of Dow Chemical. She also mentions that another former White House aide, Sara Latham, had begun working for Teneo but then quit “because she was so upset, partly because of what Doug and Declan asked her to do/pretend was happening for their clients at Davos.” The reference appears to be to Declan Kelly, a co-founder of Teneo, though what Ms. Latham was asked to do remains unclear.