GOP Working Hard to Define Hillary Clinton
WASHINGTON (AP) On any given day, Republicans call Hillary Rodham Clinton a deeply flawed future presidential candidate.
Or a formidable one.
Or, with the right amount of Republican-led scrutiny, one who might not run after all.
As the former secretary of state, first lady and New York senator prepares for a high-profile book tour in June, Republicans are using a variety of approaches to try to define Clinton and drive down the mostly positive approval ratings she built while in President Barack Obama's Cabinet.
At the same time, the GOP is building an anti-Clinton infrastructure that aims to undercut her appeal more than two years ahead of the presidential election.
"Ultimately our goal is to stop Hillary Clinton," said Garrett Marquis of the Stop Hillary PAC, which formed last year and has raised $500,000 and says it has 250,000 enlisted supporters.
"If we can do that by dissuading her from running for president in the first place, then we'll consider our effort a success," Marquis said. But if Clinton runs, Marquis said, the extra time will help "build a campaign to stop her."
Clinton's record at the State Department is likely to receive a public dissection when she begins promoting "Hard Choices," her memoir of her time as the nation's top diplomat.
In speeches, she has described it as a series of tough calls. The book is expected to discuss the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the Obama administration's diplomacy with China, Iran and the Middle East, and the September 2012 attack that killed four Americans at a diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.
Republicans say Clinton's tenure at the State Department lacked any notable accomplishment and that many of the choices were bad ones.
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GOP Working Hard to Define Hillary Clinton