Clinton Loyalists Not So Ready for “Ready for Hillary”

Ruby Cramer looks at the “Ready for Hillary” super PAC and finds “many of the allies and former aides in Clinton’s orbit are watching the organization warily, suspicious of the PAC as it gains outsize attention in the absence of any official moves from Hillaryland.”

“In a wide range of interviews with onetime staffers and fundraisers, the devotion, confusion, and quasi-paranoia among Clinton’s professional loyalists was on full display. Some spoke highly of Ready for Hillary’s ability to harness the energy around Clinton; others derided its methods and presentation as amateur; and still more refused to express an opinion at all, asking instead what their peers had said about the group. Several declined to even speak off the record: To publicly criticize one of the biggest Clinton love-fests ever seen, said one former staffer, would be to throw cold water on every voter clicking ‘like’ on Facebook.”