Clinton Will Start with ‘Insane’ Fundraising Blitz

An insider tells the Daily Beast that Hillary Clinton will kick off her presidential campaign with an effort to raise “an insane amount of money” that will “dwarf anything seen in the history of presidential politics.”

Said one Clinton aide: “They are going to raise in one week what some Republican presidential candidates are going to raise the entire cycle.”

New York Times: “But even as Mrs. Clinton attempts to set aside her celebrity and offer herself as a fighter for ordinary voters, her finance team and the outside groups supporting her candidacy have started collecting checks in what is expected to be a $2.5 billion effort, dwarfing the vast majority of her would-be rivals in both parties.”