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Watch: Hillary Clinton inspires a country music video


Hillary Rodham Clinton apparently inspires super PACs ... and country songs?

Stand With Hillary, a new pro-Clinton super PAC that launched last month, is out with a music video featuring a ballad with the same name touting the former secretary of State as the best presidential candidate for 2016. The song is by Miguel Orozco, who wrote Viva Obama and Obama Reggaeton in 2008 that were aimed at getting young Hispanics to support Barack Obama.

The Washington Post reports the new political action committee is the brainchild of Daniel Chavez, a Democratic political operative in Los Angeles, and Orozco. Chavez said in a news release about the PAC that they will try to encourage working families and Latinos to get behind Clinton and fight "gender-based attacks" in 2016.

"She motivates my daughter to look for greater avenues to have a voice — that kind of inspiration is priceless," Chavez told The Post.

The music video opens by touching on themes of hard work, family and diversity, along with images of Clinton. It plays off Clinton's own words in 2008 about her efforts to become America's first female president, in which she noted that her supporters in the Democratic primaries made "18 million cracks" in the glass ceiling.

Then the main character of the video sings that it's time to "put your boots on" and "smash this ceiling," and proceeds to shatter glass with "2016" painted on it. As the song says, the nation needs a leader "who is tough and ready" and has "vision."

Chavez said Stand With Hillary will have more to say in January -- including a song and music video reaching out to Latinos.