A Republican Ticket Hillary Clinton May Fear
At a Clinton loyalist meeting in New York City, Jeb Bush and Rob Portman's names are in the air.
Hillary Clinton, former U.S. secretary of state, speaks during the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013.
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Clinton confidant Harold Ickes didn't have any news on what his audience most wanted to hear—Hillary Clinton's presidential bid—so he turned to a classic political tactic, redirection.
“I don't know if there are things we don't know about these people that might disqualify them,” he said Friday at an all-day conference of Clinton donors in New York City. “But I would think that a Jeb Bush and a Rob Portman—just as a hypothetical—would be a strong ticket.”