U2 may drum up support as voters call Clinton’s tune

TWO U2 songs are among the front-runners to be to be used as the campaign music for Hillary Clinton’s upcoming presidential battle, she has announced.

In a tongue-in-cheek message on her website, the Democratic presidential front-runner implored Americans to help her on a decision her team had been “struggling with, debating and agonising over for months”.

Clinton offered fans a list of songs to choose from, in a Eurovision-style online vote for a favourite, including U2’s City of Blinding Lights and Beautiful Day, and Ready to Run by the Dixie Chicks. Voters could also add their own alternative candidate song.

Bill Clinton famously hopped on stage in his 1992 campaign to Don’t Stop by Fleetwood Mac.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign has pioneered a new text messaging system for supporters this week. Clinton’s new video also appeared to be part of a strategy to personalise the New York senator, who some say comes across as stilted and cold.