--- title: Hillary Clinton Confronts Her Squirrel Stalker description: The GOP has been sending someone dressed in a squirrel costume to the likely presidential contender's book tour events canonical: https://time.com/2892094/hillary-clinton-confronts-her-squirrel-stalker/ author: Denver Nicks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-18T00:28:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:47:47.615Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Confronts Her Squirrel Stalker og:description: The GOP has been sending someone dressed in a squirrel costume to the likely presidential contender's book tour events og:url: https://time.com/2892094/hillary-clinton-confronts-her-squirrel-stalker/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Confronts Her Squirrel Stalker twitter:description: The GOP has been sending someone dressed in a squirrel costume to the likely presidential contender's book tour events twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Hillary Clinton Confronts Her Squirrel Stalker > Sponsored content. 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On Tuesday, Clinton hopped out of her transport for a moment to deliver a copy of her book, _Hard Choices_, to the squirrel, which had been on her heels since last Friday. > [](https://twitter.com/HRCSquirrel/status/479040045400481792) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2892094/hillary-clinton-confronts-her-squirrel-stalker/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2892094/hillary-clinton-confronts-her-squirrel-stalker/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Confronts Her Squirrel Stalker","datePublished":"2014-06-18T00:28:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:47:47.615Z","description":"The GOP has been sending someone dressed in a squirrel costume to the likely presidential contender's book tour events","url":"https://time.com/2892094/hillary-clinton-confronts-her-squirrel-stalker/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election","2016","RNC","GOP","Bill Clinton"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Denver Nicks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2892094/hillary-clinton-confronts-her-squirrel-stalker/","name":"Hillary Clinton Confronts Her Squirrel Stalker"}}]}] ```