Hillary Clinton dismissed a report Monday indicating that the Democratic presidential candidate has become increasingly concerned about the effectiveness of her campaign, saying she is “very committed” to keeping her team.
Democratic sources said there would be a shakeup in the former secretary of state’s campaign staff following what they expect to be a lost race in New Hampshire on Tuesday.
“We’re going to take stock but it’s going to be the campaign that I’ve got. I’m very confident in the people that I have. I’m very committed to them; they’re committed to doing the best we can,” Clinton said Monday on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show, adding she had not seen the specific allegations.
The staff audit was not scheduled to be held until after the four initial primaries, but Clinton and husband Bill Clinton want new digital and communications experts added immediately.
Clinton reconciled the move to audit her campaign as a standard assessment.
“We’re moving into a different phase of the campaign. We’re moving into a more diverse electorate. We’re moving into different geographic areas. So, of course it would be malpractice not to say, ‘OK, what worked? What can we do better? What do we have to do new and different that we have to pull out?'”
If she did shake up her campaign, it would be similar to one she had in 2008 after she lost in the Granite State primary to the underdog in that race, then-Sen. Barack Obama, who went on to win the White House.
