Clinton team starts general-election prep by vetting state parties.
Top officials with Hillary Clinton’s campaign have started assessing the strength of local Democratic parties and ordering up investments to correct organizational deficiencies and financial shortfalls in the battleground states she will need in her column to win the White House.
The calls and visits from senior members of Clinton’s team, who have zeroed in on local party efforts to build political muscle, have left state officials in a “holding pattern” as they wait for guidance from Brooklyn on everything from finance to strategy to hiring, said two dozen Democratic leaders in New York, Washington, Virginia, Florida, Ohio, and Colorado.
High-level Clinton aides’ interest in the Ohio Democratic Party’s growing field program as a tool for the lead-up to November 2016 “encourages us, our volunteers and our donors, to put more resources into this effort,” said state party executive director Greg Beswick.
But, added another senior Democratic Party official based in a swing state, when it comes to setting the national party’s agenda, “the entire building has been waiting for the Clinton team to take over.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/hillary-clinton-general-election-prep-216698#ixzz3uJVZRgJm
This is how you run a national campaign.
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