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Meanwhile Conservative presidential hopeful Ted Cruz, who entered the fray last month, released his own video in reaction to Mrs Clinton's announcement, saying she represents a third Obama term and the "failed policies of the past".
The Scottish National Party's Nicola Sturgeon - another female powerhouse, seemingly backed Hillary, tweeting her support after the announcement:
While the video has gone down very well on social media, her new logo not so much. Memes have already been started, with unfortunate parallels drawn between the two vertical blocks for the H in "Hillary" and the Twin Towers, while others say it looks like a sign for a hospital
Our correspondent Rob Crilly happens to live down the street from Hillary's new HQ. He's checked it out for us:
One way for a 67-year-old former First Lady and Secretary of State to shed her image as part of the Washington old guard is to base her campaign in one of the most fashionable of New York neighbourhoods.
So it came as no surprise when details emerged that her embryonic team had leased two floors of an office block across the East River from Manhattan in Brooklyn Heights.
Even though the building itself is slightly stuffy housed on its 19 floors are the bankers of Morgan Stanley as well as lawyers working for the US attorney for the eastern district of New York - its owners market One Pierrepont Plaza as Brooklyn Cool.
And the roll-out continues. Clinton will apparently spend the next 6-8 weeks in "ramp up" mode while her team builds a "nationwide grassroots organisation", according to the first press release from her new Campaign For America operation. Some might say that she's been ramping up for years already. The first big rally will be some time in May, after she's been on her "listening tour" to Iowa, New Hampshire and other early caucus and primary states.
Her campaign team were said to have had a meeting yesterday in the new Brooklyn HQ. Jennifer Palmieri, who is expected to be her head of communications, tweeted this:
Philip Sherwell, our correspondent in New York, has this to say on her video announcement:
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Borders Liberal Democrat Michael Moore today said that as the second full week of general election campaigning draws to a close, only the Liberal Democrats have a fully-costed plan to increase investment in Scotlands NHS and give doctors and nurses the support they need.
Speaking as he was joined on the campaign trail in the Borders by Liberal Democrat Chief Whip Don Foster, Mr Moore said that by committing to Simon Stevens Five Year Forward View, the Liberal Democrats would invest 17bn more than the Tories and 7bn more than Labour in the NHS.
Last month, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie MSP confirmed that this would mean an extra 800m per year for the NHS in Scotland.
Mr Moore warned the other parties that time is running out for them to set out how they would pay for their own NHS plans. Analysis of the SNPs full fiscal autonomy proposals has shown that Scotland would face a 7.6bn funding black hole in the very first year of the policy and a 40 bn spending gap over the next parliament.
Commenting, Mr Moore said:
Because we are willing to give the health service the money it has asked for, Liberal Democrat plans would see us spend 17bn more than the Tories and 7bn more than Labour to support doctors and nurses in our NHS. This would mean an extra 800m per year for the NHS in Scotland.
Our plans are fully funded but at the end of the second full week of campaigning we are still none the wiser as to how the other parties would pay for their NHS commitments. Time is running out for them to give people the answers they need.
"Only the Liberal Democrats have a fully costed plan to give the health service the money it needs.
Labour and the Tories have not matched Liberal Democrat NHS spending plans. The SNPs full fiscal autonomy plan and the 40bn funding black hole that comes with it mean that they could not deliver the investment that our NHS needs.
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Washington If MarcoRubiolaunches his presidential campaign as expected Monday, the first-term Republican senator from Florida may have to answer this simple question. Why now?
The 43-year-oldRubio, a rising star on Capitol Hill, could wait four more years, even eight, and still be a relatively young candidate.
Some party officials want him to run for governor or try to hold his Senate seat, which could be crucial to continued Republican control of the chamber. By training his sights on the White House,Rubioalso sets up a head-to-head competition with Jeb Bush, a mentor with whom he has many overlapping supporters.
Rubiowas expected to announce his candidacy Monday in his hometown of Miami, which would put him in the shadow of Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton's highly anticipated announcement Sunday of a second White House run in a bid to become the first female U.S. president.Rubio, a Cuban-American, could make history too by being the first Hispanic president.
The window to run for president can close as quickly as it opens.
Then-Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois seized an opportunity in 2008 and won. Donors clamored for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to run in 2012, but he declined and now heads into the 2016 campaign in a decidedly weaker position.
"There's no telling that (Rubio's) opportunity will be better four or eight years from now," said Fergus Cullen, the former New Hampshire Republican chairman who is yet to throw his support behind a candidate.
Rubio'sadvisers know all about the fickle preferences of the electorate.Rubiowas a beneficiary of the 2010 tea party wave that swept dozens of conservative lawmakers into Congress just two years after Obama and Democrats won big.
ButRubio'steam sees an opportunity to answer the "why now" question and argue the country's pressing problems require a new generation of leaders, not a return to the 1990s.
Rubiois about to step into a field that is shaping up to be crowded and competitive.
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Susan Walsh/AP Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus stands on stage at the Republican National Committee winter meeting in Washington, Friday, Jan. 24, 2014.
The deluge of derision this weekend from Republicans responding to Hillary Rodham Clintons presidential launch is the start of a highly coordinated effort by national GOP leaders and conservative groups to effectively begin the general-election campaign against the likely Democratic nominee.
Acknowledging Clintons political strength, many Republican officials and strategists on the right are determined to get a head start on attacking her record as secretary of state and highlighting what they see as her vulnerabilities, almost ignoring her lesser-known rivals.
The early onslaught a battery of opposition research, snarky videos and even an upcoming feature film reflects Republicans desire to use a common opponent to unite their ranks, which have fractured as the GOP has stumbled in the past two presidential elections.
Clintons 2016 Republican challengers, some appearing Friday at the National Rifle Associations convention in Tennessee, also assailed the Democratic front-runner in speeches and interviews ahead of her entry, which her advisers said would come Sunday with a low-key rollout.
The barrage has a familiar feel. More than 14 years after Bill Clinton left the White House, Republicans are stepping back onto a battlefield in which they have toiled for decades, reviving Clinton controversies old and new as they seek to counter the formal return of a longtime adversary to presidential politics.
Reince Priebus, the combative chairman of the Republican National Committee who has become the partys most prominent Clinton critic, is leading the blitz. In recent days, the RNC has heavily promoted its Stop Hillary initiative with a Web ad that raises questions about foreign donations to her familys foundation and her use of a private e-mail account at the State Department.
Priebus who habitually describes Clinton as a cold, Nixonian liberal millionaire has approved a six-figure advertising campaign targeting voters in swing states, according to Allison Moore, a spokeswoman for the RNC.
But a galaxy of other conservative power brokers, rabble-rousers and advocacy organizations is involved, including right-wing Web sites and super PACs that can accept millions of dollars, without limits, from the partys biggest donors.
GOP consultant Roger J. Stone, in an interview Saturday, said he is finishing a book tentatively titled The Clintons War on Women and expected out this summer about the Clintons handling of episodes that have clouded Bill Clintons personal life.
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