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“I’m running for president,” the former First Lady and Secretary of State said, via social media. “Everyday Americans need a champion. And I want to be that champion.”
She will face an ever-expanding and volatile roster of Republican challengers, including the presumed front-runner, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul.
Clinton, born October 26, 1947, would become the first woman President in U.S. History. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, would become the first-ever “First Man”. His role in her would-be Presidency, as he described it, would be a “behind the scenes advisor”.
Hillary Clinton lost a tough primary election against Barack Obama in 2008. There are few – if any – Democrats, so far, who have seemed eager to enter the race up until this point, as Hillary Clinton has long appeared to be the anointed Democrat in the 2016 election. Her fund-raising apparatus has been in place for years and is likely to crank up immediately, making any challenge to her a tall task until the general election.
