CRI听力:Clinton to Launch 2016 Presidential Campaign

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to launch her long-anticipated 2016 presidential campaign on Sunday.

Clinton is scheduled to make her second bid for the presidency after months of speculation about her political future.

If elected, Clinton would be the United States' first female president.

Leonard Steinhorn, Political Science Professor at American University, says the prospect of serving as the first female president of the US can be an advantage for Hillary's election.

"She has been through almost every version of what one can expect of somebody in public life. She's taken hits, she's had incredible successes, she's admired, she's feared and now is really that final act as to whether she can expand her voice, experience and the lessons she's learned to the larger American public."

But not everyone is optimistic for Clinton's presidential campaign.

Julie Pace, White House Correspondent for the Associated Press.

"She does come with a lot of liabilities. The first is that she is just someone who has been in the public eye for so long. Americans tend to want someone new and different and there is just no way can that she completely fulfill that for people. The other problem with the Clintons is that they just come with a lot of their own baggage, more so than most people who have been in political life. We saw this with the email controversy. It harkins back to questions about secrecy, transparency with the Clintons."

Clinton had earlier been criticized for the use of a personal email account and server in her tenure as US Secretary of State, and the Clinton Foundation's acceptance of donations from foreign governments.

Clinton will officially announce her bid for the Democratic Party's nomination through an online video to be published on social media this Sunday.