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An Exit Brewing?

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This entry was posted on 6/2/2008 1:49 PM and is filed under 2008 Election, All Posts.


It's just my luck to take a long weekend out of town, only for the Rules and Bylaws Committee on Florida and Michigan to erupt into a political circus, Barack Obama to leave Trinity Church once and for all, and Hillary Clinton to win Puerto Rico in a landslide.  Slow news weekend, indeed!

And then today, I catch
this:

Hillary Rodham Clinton will give her post-primary speech in New York Tuesday night, a rare departure from the campaign trail. 
Staffers who have worked for her on he ground in Puerto Rico, South Dakota and Montana have been invited to attend the event or go home for further instructions, campaign aides said.  The New York senator had no other events Tuesday.  She planned to address AIPAC Wednesday in Washington.
But she is under increasing pressure to cede the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama after the final primaries. There was a sense of denouement in the campaign. She planned to rally with husband and former President Clinton and their daughter Chelsea in South Dakota Monday night—a reunion usually reserved for election nights.


Many have suggested that if and when Hillary drops out, it will almost certainly be by announcing her exit from the race with a speech in New York City, likely just after the final primaries of the season.  That would be this Tuesday night, after Montana and South Dakota vote. 

Then there's this, from the Atlantic's
Marc Ambinder:

Clinton Campaign staffers and former campaign staffers are being urged by the Clinton campaign's finance department to turn in their outstanding expense receipts by the end of the week.  That's a sign, to them, that the campaign wants to get its affairs in order soon.  If Clinton were staying in the race, there'd be no real reason to collect these receipts now; she'd still be raising and spending money from the same primary campaign account.  The campaign is in arrears to the tune of about $11 million.


And this, from Bill Clinton himself:

"I want to say also that this may be the last day I'm ever involved in a campaign of this kind," the former president told Clinton supporters in South Dakota, ABC and NBC reported on their news websites.


Folks, we may—just may—finally be wrapping this sucker up.

 

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    • 6/2/2008 4:35 PM Aunt DeeDee wrote:
      Wow, I can't believe Bill said that. Yup, should be an interesting speech in NYC. How lame if she just says she's going to keep pushing, relaunch the campaign, etc.
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