Amy Chozick reports on the presidential race from Washington, D.C.
Hillary Clinton has endured decades of Republican attacks. That may not sound like a good thing, but the Clinton campaign says “oh yes it is.”
A new poll suggests that Barack Obama may be the stronger Democrat to beat Republican John McCain. But don’t tell Clinton that. She argues that years of withstanding criticism from Republicans makes her the strongest candidate.
“I am battle scarred and I’m proud of those scars,” Clinton told reporters today after touring a General Motors plant outside Baltimore. “I believe I can make the most convincing argument that I am the person best able to be president from day one and best able to beat Sen. McCain.”
Clinton is arguing that because her past — both personal and professional — has been so thoroughly vetted by Republican opponents, she’ll be better prepared to withstand anything the GOP may throw at her in a general election.
Obama, she says, hasn’t gone through that same process. And this, she says, could make him more vulnerable to a smear campaign like the Swift Boat issue that hurt Sen. John Kerry’s bid for the presidency in 2004.
“My track record at being able to take on Republicans is really a proven one. Someone told me today that Sen. Obama has never had a negative ad run against him. Well, get ready because if he’s going to be the nominee that’s going to happen,” she said in an interview with a local ABC network in Washington, D.C.
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