Super-PAC seeks to soften Clinton in new holiday video

A super-PAC working with the Hillary Clinton campaign is out with a new holiday video as part of a million-dollar project aimed at boosting the Democratic presidential front-runner’s likability. 

The Christmas-themed video from Correct the Record tells the story of Molly McGowan, a Clinton family friend who joined the Clintons as members at First United Methodist Church in Little Rock. As a 5-year-old on Christmas Eve singing “Silent Night” with the congregation, McGowan swayed right into a candle and lit her hair on fire in front of the whole church. 

{mosads}“I was rushed to the women’s restroom where the first three people I honestly remember there were my mom, my Aunt Sarah and Hillary Clinton,” McGowan says in the video, shared first with The Hill.

Calling Hillary “encouraging and supportive,” McGowan recalled that the then-Arkansas first lady told her to “get back out there, girlfriend you know you’ve got to go back out with your head held high. I’m glad that, you know, we may have to cut your hair off now, but you’re OK, you’re safe and go back out there and finish it up and let the pageant continue and wish everybody a Merry Christmas.” 

The video is Correct the Record’s seventh in the “Let’s Talk Hillary” series that aims to portray Clinton in a different light than she has been cast on the political stage. The series includes conversations with former Clinton colleagues praising her as authentic and compassionate.    

Correct the Record is a super-PAC that coordinates with the campaign, unlike other similar groups, due to its interpretation of a loophole in election law. 

Once sporting strong favorable ratings while serving as secretary of State, Clinton’s return to the political world has sparked a deep partisan division and sliding favorability ratings. 

She’s currently averaging about a 52 percent rating in Huffington Post’s polltracker, an 11-point gap from her favorable rating.

And a new Quinnipiac poll released Tuesday morning found that almost 60 percent of American voters believe she is not “honest or trustworthy,” numbers that many have blamed in part on the ongoing controversy about her use of an email server. 

But Clinton loyalists say that perception is unwarranted, thus the “Let’s Talk Hillary” project sponsored by former Ready for Hillary co-founder Allida Black.