Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has declared that she is running for president in 2016, seeking to become the first female to occupy the seat that her husband Bill Clinton held for eight years, and setting up what could be the most expensive campaign in history.

Clinton made the announcement on Sunday in a video published on her website, saying "the deck is still stacked in favour of those at the top" as she sought to highlight the theme of economic inequality.

It is the second time that Clinton has run for presidency.
On Saturday, President Barack Obama, who defeated her in the 2008 Democratic nomination, said Clinton "would be an excellent president".
"She was an outstanding secretary of state. She is my friend. I think she would be an excellent president," Obama said from Panama, where he attended the Summit of the Americas and held a historic meeting with the Cuban leader Raul Castro.

With her first candidacy in 2008, Clinton made history as the first ever spouse of an American president to seek the highest elective office in the US.

In the biography section of her website, Clinton, a Democrat, talked about her bipartisan record as senator, crossing party lines to work with Republicans, who now control the US Congress.

But during her husband's presidency from 1993 to 2001, both Clintons repeatedly clashed with the Republicans, who tried to remove the 42nd president from office. She became a lightning-rod for Republican criticism, from her handling of the Clinton administration's failed healthcare reform to the investigations into their private lives. 
$2.5bn campaign
Although a native of Chicago, Clinton has set up her campaign headquarters in New York, where she served as senator after her husband left office.
Clinton is expected to make her first campaign stop in the US state of Iowa, which will hold the first nominating process in early 2016.
Clinton is not the only high-profile US politician in the running for president. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, son of the 41st US President George HW Bush and brother of another former president, George W Bush is also expected to declare his candidacy for the Republican Party.
Not long after Clinton announced her bid on Sunday night, Jeb Bush responded on Twitter, saying: "We must do better than Hillary."

That sets up a potential Clinton-Bush matchup and a repeat of the 1992 elections, when the elderly President Bush lost to Bill Clinton, then a governor of the small southern US state of Arkansas.
According to a New York Times report, Clinton and her allies are trying to raise as much as $2.5bn to finance her campaign. The eventual Republican candidate is also expected to match that amount.  

Source: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/04/hillary-clinton-run-2016-presidential-race-150412134159476.html

Good for her , sheybi no be Nigeria she wan contest

Hillary is on her way to the White House unless Rubio conjures something special.
Jeb Bush and Rand Paul have no chance at the Republican nomination.

Moreover, Hillary should choose a woman as her running mate.

And why do we care? Will you see Nigeria being discussed on a web forum for Americans? This is Niaraland politics. it is for the analysis and debate of NIGERIAN politics. If you want to discuss American politics please go to Huff post, National Review, Red State...etc. We are not interested in who becomes the president of that Racist country.

Naija and Proud!

She still hasn't told her ppl why she deleted those emails. None of my business sha. Sai Buhari

How can a woman rule a country like the US.

bjdon:
And why do we care? Will you see Nigeria being discussed on a web forum for Americans? This is Niaraland politics. it is for the analysis and debate of NIGERIAN politics. If you want to discuss American politics please go to Huff post, National Review, Red State...etc. We are not interested in who becomes the president of that Racist country.

Naija and Proud!

If you don't care, why did you open the thread at all, so much as to comment.

This is Nairaland true but I've seen several threads with foreign content on this same Nairaland. Besides, I can't see any rule I'm violating here.

Peeps like you amuse me. But i'll say less, and just for you to know I'm not just a Nigerian but I'm Proudly Nigerian. I want to make a huge impact in Nigeria, so much that my impact would cut across continents.

Your comments depicts that of someone who is and wants to remain local champion...I wish you well dear.

Please this is no news....in the sense that it's not of interest.

legalbynature:



If you don't care, why did you open the thread at all, so much as to comment.

This is Nairaland true but I've seen several threads with foreign content on this same Nairaland. Besides, I can't see any rule I'm violating here.

Peeps like you amuse me. But i'll say less, and just for you to know I'm not just a Nigerian but I'm Proudly Nigerian. I want to make a huge impact in Nigeria, so much that my impact would cut across continents.

Your comments depicts that of someone who is and wants to remain local champion...I wish you well dear.

Not at all, I simply go to the relevant sites for the relevant discussions. I think you are in fact the one who is a 'local champion' as you only want to come to a Nigerian forum to discuss the US elections. Why not go and discuss with other Americans on any of the multitude of web forums available. Abi you dey fear to debate with fellow Americans?

bjdon:


Not at all, I simply go to the relevant sites for the relevant discussions. I think you are in fact the one who is a 'local champion' as you only want to come to a Nigerian forum to discuss the US elections. Why not go and discuss with other Americans on any of the multitude of web forums available. Abi you dey fear to debate with fellow Americans?

Lol!

You confirmed my fears, I shouldn't have replied you in the first place.

In the primaries that brought in Obama, she didn't succeed..

Great woman, she keeps making American women proud

The negative comments from some zombies is simply because she is a woman. Hahaha. Keep screaming kitchen and other room. Gradually women are taking over while you keep spewing trash.

I like the way she's making that bully always defensive.