Is Hillary the Democrats' Mitt Romney?

In 2012 Mitt Romney, then governor of Massachusetts, became the face of Republicans in the U.S. While he wasn’t as nationally known previous to his announcement to run as Clinton is, Romney faced the same issue Hillary does today: the split of the party they’re meant to represent.

Clinton’s most notable controversy was the response to the attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2002. More recently, she came under fire for using her personal email address to conduct U.S. State Department business.

In the weeks leading up to Clinton’s Sunday announcement, Facebook groups such as Democrats Against Hillary Clinton in 2016 have recirculated a 2014 article in which she reaffirms her defense in a 1975 rape trial.

Progressives are unsure of Clinton’s positions on “a litany of current policy issues,” according to Al Jazeera English.

“It’s just on so many important society-shaping issues we don’t know where she stands and we have a suspicion that she’d rather not say,” Roger Hickey, co-director of the progressive Campaign for America’s Future said.