“Less is known about Hillary Clinton’s positions on domestic issues than any other leading candidate since Dwight Eisenhower,” said H.W. Brands, a history professor at the University of Texas and author of six presidential biographies.
The elusiveness of her views troubles some Democratic leaders. “Does it bother me that, from the lead candidate and presumptive nominee, there is not a clarity?” said Representative Raul Grijalva of Arizona, a co-chairman of the House Progressive Caucus. “Of course it does.”
Even Robert Reich, a longtime Clinton ally who has advised her nascent campaign, can’t tell where she will come down in the struggle over economic policy between progressives such as Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and the Wall Street wing of the party associated with former Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Timothy Geithner.
“If she were to become a candidate she could go in either direction on these core questions,” said Reich, who was Labor secretary under President Bill Clinton and is now an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
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