Kirsten Gillibrand was just handed a golden ticket

Democratic bigwigs now reportedly hate the New York senator. She couldn't have scripted it better if she tried.

Kirsten Gillibrand.
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Kirsten Gillibrand is running into problems from an unusual source: the Democratic donor class. Amanda Terkel reports at HuffPost that big-time donors are furious at her for saying that Bill Clinton should have resigned, and for pressuring Al Franken to quit the Senate after eight women accused him of groping. The enraged bourgeois include George Soros and, rather oddly, a number of wealthy women.

This probably seems bad to Gillibrand and her staff, but it's actually a golden opportunity for her — perhaps her best chance to date to solve her biggest political problem: the perception that she is a political weathervane with no clear principles, fatally compromised by Wall Street cash. These are enemies worth having.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.