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Carly Fiorina Roasts Hillary Clinton Fox News Sunday 3/29/15
March 29th, 2015 Potential 2016 presidential candidate Carly Fiorina raked Hillary Clinton over the coals during an appearance on Fox News Sunday. Fiorina asked Mrs. Clinton to "name...

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Story highlights Hillary Clinton and her aides plan a very different campaign in 2016 Clinton will avoid using the first person whenever possible and Bill Clinton will play a smaller role Staffers waiting for the official announcement are currently unpaid and working out of a kitchen The person in charge of reintroducing Hillary Clinton also helped shape Michelle Obama's public persona

As she and a coterie of advisers prepare to launch her presidential campaign, their work is guided by a new set of humble principles: No big crowds. Few soaring rallies. Less mention of her own ambitions. And extinguish the air of inevitability propelling her candidacy.

The long and winding prelude to her announcement is nearly over, according to aides, and the start of her second bid for the White House is likely only days away. Top Democratic activists in the early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire privately say they have been placed on alert that Clinton will soon be on her way.

The specific moment she jumps into the race remains a closely guarded secret, even inside the crowded corridors of her small office suite in Manhattan, which new aides have descended upon to build the operation. Only a handful of confidantes actually know the precise time Clinton will pull the trigger first on social media yet aides have been instructed to be ready from Monday forward.

But her campaign strategy has crystallized: She will devote considerable time and attention to on-the-ground footwork in Iowa and New Hampshire. She intends to make less frequent stops in Nevada and South Carolina. Together, those four states kick off the nominating contest early next year and will help determine how warmly Democrats embrace her candidacy.

The early pieces of her strategy are starting to come into sharper view as the announcement nears. One of the most noticeable differences from her first campaign, according to more than a dozen people close to the Clintons, is a concerted effort to try and make her candidacy seem far less focused on her winning than on listening to the concerns of voters.

"The early caucus and primary states give her an opportunity to visit with folks in small, more intimate settings, where they will learn a lot about her and she will learn a lot from them," Tom Vilsack, the agriculture secretary and former Iowa governor, who served as a national chairman of her 2008 campaign, told CNN.

Over dinner and drinks one night last week at Baratta's, a cozy Italian restaurant in Des Moines, two top visiting Clinton strategists listened as supportive Iowa activists issued a stark warning: Some Democrats are far less enthused about her candidacy than others. After placing third in the Iowa caucuses in 2008, they said she must ask for every vote as well as being willing to run a gauntlet of small events and take part in grueling campaign sessions across the state.

Robby Mook, the campaign manager, and Marlon Marshall, a top deputy, traveled from New York to Iowa and New Hampshire last week as Clinton's envoys. They hosted the dinner and other intimate events, hoping to show that a former First Lady, senator and Secretary of State was open to concern, constructive criticism and even complaints.

Tom Henderson, chairman of the Polk County Democratic Party in Iowa, said activists were hungry for a primary campaign or at least a serious conversation about issues facing the country and who would become President Obama's successor. He was not invited to the dinner last week because he intends to remain neutral in the race, but he said he has shared his views with Clinton confidantes.

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Hillary Clinton is downsizing for 2016

Hillary Clinton isn't likely to have even a semi-serious primary challenge. That much we know.

But, her expected coronation hasn't stopped a few Democrats from offering some less-than-positive thoughts about her and her candidacy. Here's the five meanest, ranked from least mean to most mean.

5. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.)

"She is the leading candidate, whether it be Republican or Democrat, to be the next president and I think that she needs to step up and come out and state exactly what the situation is." - on NBC's "Meet the Press" March 8

How mean, really?Feinstein was critical of Clinton's handling of her e-mail controversy, but not exactly mean.

4. Sen. Harry Reid (Nev.)

"How can ... Jeb get away from [President George W. Bush's record]? I'll take Clinton baggage over that any day." - in an interview with theNew York Timespublished April 2

How mean, really?Coming from someone like Reid, it's basicallya compliment --albeit a back-handed one. It's notthe best thing to say about the presumed nominee of your party, but hey, who in national politics doesn't have baggage after more than two decades?

3. David Axelrod

"What happened in 2008 was that Hillary's candidacy got out in front of any rationale for it, and the danger is that that's happening again. You hear 'Ready for Hillary.' It's like, ready for what? Now Hillary's task is to define what it is that she's running for and running about, and what would the future look like under another President Clinton, and I suspect that's what she's taking her time working through now, but she has to answer that question." - on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" December 16

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The positions will become official once Clinton announces her candidacy, expected this month.

Finney is a longtime member of Hillaryland, having served as Deputy Press Secretary to Clinton when she was First Lady, after working on Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign. Finney was a traveling press secretary on Hillary Clinton's 2000 senate campaign and Communications Director at the Democratic National Committee from 2005-2009. As a contributor and host on MSNBC Finney became a prominent Democratic voice in politics, most recently appearing on CNN as a Democratic strategist.

Shur will oversee television, mail, radio and digital advertising. He served as Director of the Democratic Governors Association independent expenditures in 2014 cycle and managed Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon's successful 2012 re-election campaign.

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Clinton is due for a reset with the press. Her 2008 campaign was notoriously combative with reporters. She was more at ease with the press corps that covered her while she was Secretary of State, but she's treated reporters with suspicion since her years as First Lady, where attention to controversies often left Clinton feeling assaulted by the media.

"My relationship with the press has been at times, shall we say, complicated," Clinton acknowledged last month as she gave the keynote address at a gala honoring political reporting.

"I'm all about new beginnings," she added, "A new grandchild, a new hairstyle, a new email account, a new relationship with the press."

Clinton's 2016 communications staff selections reflect an effort at a reset. Finney will join a roster of staff who have congenial relationships with reporters, led by Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri, who most recently served in the same role in the Obama White House, and joined by lead spokesman Brian Fallon, and spokesman Jesse Ferguson, who is expected to handle daily communications with the press.

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CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misstated which year Clinton had hired her campaign staff.

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