Wall Street Journal: “Some politicians relish the campaign trail: the rope lines, rallies and photo ops. For Mrs. Clinton, it’s more of an ordeal to be borne. One veteran of her past races said that if Mrs. Clinton had her druthers she would delay entering the race as long as possible, perhaps waiting until deep into the summer. Yet if the fallout from stories about her email practices as secretary of state and foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation have made anything clear, it’s that Mrs. Clinton can’t afford to wait. If she’s going to run, she needs to start the race. Now.”
“Mrs. Clinton had a rough winter and the absence of a campaign operation made matters worse. She had a bare-bones press operation to deal with an avalanche of media inquiries. Other than through paid speeches, she had scant opportunity to change the subject and focus attention on the issues that she’d prefer to be front and center: jobs, wages, the middle class and equal pay for women. Republicans, meantime, are casting her absence from the campaign as a sign she’s ducking tough questions.”
