The group making hires is cropping up at a time when Clinton’s numbers are down. Research shop lands Clinton aides

The research super PAC American Bridge has made a string of hires from within Clintonland for an offshoot project called “Correct the Record,” an effort whose goal is protecting potential 2016 Democratic candidates - with Hillary Clinton chief among them.

The group, which was launched in the 2012 cycle by Clinton ally and Media Matters founder David Brock, has hired from within Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, and is getting financial support from two longtime Clinton donors, officials with the group told POLITICO.


The Correct the Record project is an offshoot under the American Bridge umbrella, but with a staff dedicated to it.

They’ve hired Burns Strider, who was a senior adviser to Clinton in ‘08, as a Correct the record senior adviser and a VP of American Bridge. They’re also hiring three other people - former Rep. Loretta Sanchez aide Adrienne Elrod, Isaac Wright and Sam Ritzman, a former aide to Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla).

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Clinton donors including Susie Tompkins Buell and Steve Bing have also committed to the new effort, said American Bridge officials. Others who have pledged support are financier Bernanrd Schwartz, Priorities USA supporter and President Obama backer Barbara Stiefel and Paul Egerman, who was finance chair for Sen. Elizabeth Warren in her 2012 race in Massachusetts.

“I’m confident that American Bridge’s new team will continue to fight Republican fiction with good old-fashioned facts,” said American Bridge supporter and Friend-of-Bill Clinton James Carville.

The group is cropping up at a time when Hillary Clinton’s numbers have come down since she left the State Department and as Republicans are ramping up efforts against her. American Bridge officials noted there are six super PACs on the Republican side focused on Clinton, including the “Stop Hillary” effort from “America Rising,” co-founded by former Mitt Romney advisers.

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“In this early period, Correct the Record will aggressively challenge false right-wing attacks before they take hold and expose the fraudulent sources of these attacks to the public,” said Brock, who recently wrote an ebook aimed at defending Clinton and slamming certain media outlets over coverage of the Benghazi attacks, in a statement.