Is former President Bill Clinton going to shake up his wife’s campaign?
 
The New York Daily News had a tantalizing article this morning suggesting that former president is furious at how Hillary Clinton’s own White House bid is going and that he may jump in to save it and reshuffle her staff.

But she told the newspaper:  “These stories are false. I have the best staff in the country, and I have total and complete confidence in them.”

The story comes as new polls in New Hampshire show a dead heat there after Clinton had led by decent margins for months. A new CNN/WMUR poll found her lead over rival Barack Obama evaporated to just one point ahead of the state’s Jan. 8 primary.

From the Daily News:

“She’s in big trouble and he knows it,” a top Democratic operative and Hillary Clinton booster told the Daily News.
 
Sources familiar with the ex-President’s thinking say he doesn’t believe his wife’s situation is desperate. But he’s unhappy with her operation - once hailed as a juggernaut - and concerned she could lose the Democratic nomination without major alterations in strategy and staffing.
 
Bill Clinton is mulling “a lot of different ideas and a lot of different scenarios to fix this,” an official who regularly speaks with him said. “He will come up with literally dozens of ideas. The trick will be to figure out the most important one or two to get her out of this downtrend.”
 
Another Democrat with close connections to the Clinton campaign describes Bill Clinton as “very engaged and very agitated. He’s yelling at [chief strategist] Mark Penn a lot.”
 
Penn laughed off the idea that he’s on the hot seat. “That’s funny,” he said. “I’ve been working with Bill Clinton through thick and thin for 10 years, exchanging views.”

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