The increasingly insistent rumors about Hillary Clinton's candidacy for the White House for the 2016 presidential elections are today presumed to be confirmed in the background published by investigative reporter Edward Klein in his new book.
The thesis is that former President Bill Clinton is the main sponsor of his wife's presidential ambitions, and that he has decided to support the last phase of Obama's electoral campaign, pledging to appear in Charlotte, only after an intense mediation process by political strategist David Axelro, and following a specific commitment by the outgoing president Obama, to support Hillary in turn for the subsequent elections in 2016.
It is this do ut des that led Bill Clinton to deliver the most effective speech of the entire Democratic Convention, precisely the one in Charlotte, and to stand alongside a shaky Obama in the following 48 hours of rallies in the precarious states.
«The Amateur», as Klein's book is called, also tells of a very stormy relationship between Bill and Obama, made up of low blows, such as when Obama tries to claim a more neutral role in the 2016 match, to which the loyal Joe Biden, Obama's current deputy. The episode ended with the renewal of the agreement after Clinton threatened embarrassing revelations.
