and rebuts republican rivals who say he s not tough enough to become commander in chief. i want to promote as reagan put t peace in strength. marco rubio is next as the 2016 race shifts into high gear. inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. a big breaking news day as we welcome you this morning to inside politics. i m john king. thanks for sharing your sunday morning. hillary clinton makes it official today. she wants to be your next president. with us to share the reporting and their insights on this big day, national journal s ron fourteen yeah, lisa leer, robert acosta of the washington post. and the latest greatest edition leah malika henderson. welcome to the fray. thank you. hillary clinton is running for president again. she begins today in just a few hours, we re told. she will begin the overwhelming
front-runner for the democratic presidential nomination. it s as close to a lock as you can get. if you had to bet today, she also begins because of presidential election dem graphi demographics. she begins as the early favorite to win the white house in 2016. yet, ron fourteen yeah, as someone who has covered hillary clinton for two decades. you write formidable but can be beat, why? spent the last three or four days in iowa. out there specifically, they re not so sure that they want this to be a coronation. they don t want it to be. they want it to be a contest. they have doubts about her ability and willingness to do the retail politics that you have there. they re taking a hard look at martin o malley specifically. they re taking a hard look at martin o malley. we have poll graphics. she is 47 points ahead of her closest rival, that s joe biden. she s at 62%, joe biden is at 15%. we don t think he s running.