{"id":20778,"date":"2015-08-21T23:47:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T23:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=20778"},"modified":"2015-08-21T23:49:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T23:49:25","slug":"gov-jerry-brown-smells-blood-always-wanted-the-democratic-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=20778","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Jerry Brown Smells Blood, Always Wanted The Democratic Nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>JERRY BROWN: HILLARY CLINTON\u2019S EMAIL SCANDAL \u2018LIKE A VAMPIRE\u2019<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20781\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jerry-Brown-Sandy-Huffaker-Getty-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20781\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20781\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jerry-Brown-Sandy-Huffaker-Getty-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Sandy Huffaker \/ Getty\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jerry-Brown-Sandy-Huffaker-Getty-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jerry-Brown-Sandy-Huffaker-Getty-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandy Huffaker \/ Getty<\/p><\/div>\n<p>by JOEL B. POLLAK<br \/>\nBreitbart.com<\/p>\n<h2>California Gov. Jerry Brown told NBC News\u2019 Chuck Todd that Hillary Clinton\u2019s ongoing email scandal is full of \u201cdark energy\u201d that she must address. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a vampire,\u201d Brown said. \u201cShe\u2019s gonna have to find a stake and put it through the heart of these emails, in some way.\u201d<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/2E2eJC\/nbcNewsOffsite?guid=a_mtp_brownbite_150821\" width=\"635\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The full interview is set to run on\u00a0NBC News\u2019\u00a0<em>Meet the Press<\/em> on Sunday, where Todd may\u00a0ask the California governor, once again, if he himself intends to run for president for the fourth time. Todd first posed the 2016 question to Brown in his appearance on\u00a0<em>Meet the Press<\/em> in March.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Brown MTP\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2015\/03\/22\/jerry-brown-lays-out-three-point-presidential-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\">On that occasion<\/a>, Brown said that he would certainly run if he were ten years younger (he is 77 today), and\u00a0laid out a three-point plan that looked intriguingly like the beginnings of a presidential platform: balancing the budget, dealing with climate change, and investing in science.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, a perfect political storm is brewing that could see Brown\u00a0enter the race\u2013and win the nomination. One factor is the emergence of<\/p>\n<div class=\"crtvwrapper\">\n<p><span class=\"scoreregex\" data-govtrackid=\"400357\" data-title=\"Sen\" data-first=\"Bernie\" data-last=\"Sanders\" data-party=\"I\" data-state=\"VT\" data-grade=\"F\" data-average=\"16\" data-link=\"B\/400357?utm_campaign=breitbartapi&amp;utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=breitbart\" data-image=\"400357.jpeg\" data-ispresidentialcandidate=\"\" data-ismemberofcongress=\"\" data-presidentialprofileurl=\"\" data-prescandidatecomparisonurl=\"\">Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"cr-pill\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>16%<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>, who is running as a Democrat against Clinton and is drawing capacity stadium crowds despite also being in his 70s.<\/p>\n<p>Another factor is Clinton\u2019s ongoing struggle with questions about her State Department e-mails and her private e-mail server, which have now reached the level of an FBI investigation.\u00a0Even if Clinton is not\u00a0charged with a crime, questions about corruption will haunt her campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there is the Donald Trump factor. If Trump wins the GOP nomination, and Clinton is unavailable, Democrats will need a larger-than-life personality to fill the void. Brown\u00a0is a political icon who hovers \u201cabove the fray,\u201d <a title=\"fray\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2015\/08\/20\/jerry-brown-on-donald-trump-oh-my-god\/\" target=\"_blank\">in his own words<\/a>. He also has the most experience in office of any candidate\u2013Democrat or Republican\u2013in the field. He\u00a0mixes\u00a0utopianism with economic\u00a0pragmatism, spending billions on high-speed rail but refusing to ban fracking or legalize marijuana. Once derided as \u201cMoonbeam,\u201d he is now seen, in California politics, as the adult in the room.<\/p>\n<p>Brown represents the\u00a0activist style\u00a0Democrats say they want\u2013and has done the\u00a0financial rescue conservatives\u00a0say the country needs. He could even peel off support from moderate Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>As El Ni\u00f1o brews over the Pacific, a perfect political storm may be brewing for Jerry Brown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERRY BROWN: HILLARY CLINTON\u2019S EMAIL SCANDAL \u2018LIKE A VAMPIRE\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}