Hillary Clinton Super Bowl Tweet: 2016 Presidential Race Frontrunner Takes a Jab at FOX
Hillary Clinton sent out a tweet during the Super Bowl saying: "It's so much more fun to watch FOX when it's someone else being blitzed & sacked!" The joke was aimed at Fox for the network's coverage of her during her tenure as the secretary of State. Clinton's press secretary Nick Merrill confirmed in an email that it was a joke. "It was good-natured, light-hearted, and self-deprecating," he said.
Hillary's tweet was retweeted over 52,000 times and was favorited more than 47,000 times.
She sent the tweet when the Broncos were scoreless, a few hours after President Obama and Fox News host Bill O'Reilly debated one another on Sunday over the health care law, the attack in Benghazi, and the Internal Revenue Service. In the interview, O'Reilly suggested that Obama administration officials blamed the Libyan attack on a spontaneous demonstration at first to save face ahead of the 2012 re-election campaign before admitting it was a terrorist attack.
Hillary has repeated said the attack on United States facilities in Benghazi was one of her biggest regrets as Secretary of State. According to CNN, Clinton is the "odd-on favorite" in early polls (70 percent of Democrats supported her nomination) to capture the Democratic nomination if she decided to run for president, noting that there's also Vice President Joe Biden and several other Democrats in and out of Washington who might take a shot.
"Clinton was the heavy favorite in 2008 only to be overtaken by Barack Obama. But no one in the potential Democratic field is seen at this early moment as electrifying and transformational as Obama was that year."
According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll, Clinton has a 6 to 1 lead over other Democrats heading into the 2016 presidential campaign while the Republican field is divided with no clear front-runner. President Biden is second with 12 percent and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is third with 8 percent.
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