There is trouble in Hillaryland: According to anonymous sources who spoke with Politico,
Hillary Clinton is frustrated with her campaign staff — and vice versa.
With the too-close-for-comfort win over Bernie Sanders in Iowa and a
New Hampshire victory for the Vermont senator on the horizon, Clinton is reportedly looking to reassess the staff at her Brooklyn headquarters sooner rather than later.
One source who is close with both Hillary and her husband,
former President Bill Clinton, said, "The Clintons are not happy, and
have been letting all of us know that. The idea is that we need a more
forward-looking message, for the primary — but also for the general
election too… There's no sense of panic, but there is an urgency to fix
these problems right now."
There is dissatisfaction among Clinton's staffers, too:
Over the summer while her campaign was bogged
down in the email controversy, Clinton was deeply frustrated with her
own staff, and vice versa. The candidate blamed her team for not getting
her out of the mess quickly, and her team blamed Clinton for being
stubbornly unwilling to take the advice of campaign chairman John
Podesta and others to apologize, turn over her server, and move on. The
entire experience made her a deeply vulnerable frontrunner out of the
gate, and underscored a lack of trust between Clinton and her
operatives, many of whom were former Obama staffers that she didn't
consider part of her inner circle of trust.
Her advisers were also frustrated by having to play roles
they hadn't been hired for and were ill-suited for. From the beginning,
[the campaign's top pollster and strategist Joel] Benenson was
frustrated that he was forced to split his time between defending his
boss on emails and defining a path for her candidacy. Clinton,
meanwhile, longed for a chief strategist in the Mark Penn mold who could
take on a more expansive role than playing
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