The star candidate, who in her three-decades of intensely public life has already racked up a with a resume and cachet rarely found in presumptive presidential race nominees, is headed to Iowa. It is an early voting state that is traditionally the starting point for those campaigning for party nomination. She has two scheduled events on Monday in the so-called Hawkeye state, and she can be certain she will get both hawk-eyed scrutiny and hawkish attention despite her efforts to kickstart her campaign in a low-key manner.
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That strategy included releasing a 138-second video on Sunday declaring her Presidential bid that is being minutely analyzed even as she jumped into a van with aides - rather than into a flashy GulfStream jet or a ritzy campaign bus trailed by endless media - for the 1046 mile road trip. The effort appeared to be to present herself as an ordinary, against-odds candidate connecting with ordinary people instead of the odds-on political insider that she is.
Indeed, first reports from the road, even as the hack pack revved up vehicles to chase her down, showed her chatting up people in gas stations and eateries along the way. She isn't driving herself; she said in interview last year that she hasn't sat behind the steering wheel since 1996 when the Secret Service forbade her form driving when she was the First Lady.
Back in political parlors and the country's living rooms and kitchen tables, the video was being viewed and reviewed for substance and sincerity.
It is an unusual political ad, showing an assortment of Americans, including many minorities, talking about their hopes and aspirations as they undertake new challenges in their quotidian lives - getting ready for a job, to go to college, to have baby, to start a new business etc. Hillary Clinton does not even appear in the video till about 90 seconds into an ad that could till that point be mistaken for insurance or soap or a medication commercial.
''I'm getting ready to do something, too--I'm running for President,'' Hillary Clinton declares when she finally pops up. ''Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times. But the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top. Everyday Americans need a champion and I want to be that champion,'' she says.
''I'm hitting the road to earn your vote, because it's your time. And I hope you'll join me on this journey,'' she concludes amid a collage of happy, optimistic people going about their lives.
How much the words and the sentiment will resonate will take some time to assess. Aside from being an easily recognizable face whose track record is full laid out (both an advantage and a disadvantage), Clinton leads most polls for the Democratic nomination with few early challengers; she even leads any potential face-off with major Republican nominees such as Jeb Bush.
But 18 months is an eternity in politics, and as America's most promising female presidential candidate ever launched her campaign, opposition attack dogs were already being let loose. From rabid, intemperate, conspiratorial attacks on social media to more reasoned arguments in informed debates, her political adversaries began chipping away at her record.
''Americans need a president they can trust and voters do not trust Hillary Clinton,'' Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement. ''Over decades as a Washington insider, Clinton has left a trail 'ofsecrecy, scandal, and failed policies that can't be erased from voters.'
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