Keeping a candidate on message is hard enough for a campaign — but even a perfect day can be ruined by factors beyond their control.

Take Hillary Clinton for example. She stayed frighteningly on message on Sunday and made zero news at any of her campaign stops, but still had a bad news day because two top surrogates — her daughter Chelsea and OH Gov Ted Strickland — went rogue.

Chelsea snubbed a 9 year old girl on the ropeline, while Strickland, who campaigned with Hillary in Iowa on Saturday, dissed the Hawkeye State’s first in the nation status, telling the Columbus Dispatch it “makes no sense.”

Clinton spokesman Jay Carson says the Senator has enjoyed the caucus process and the opportunity it provides to meet voters one-on-one. “She’s happy to have Gov Strickland’s endorsement, but she strenuously disagrees” with his remarks, he said.

Check out some video of Strickland talking up Iowa with Sen Clinton on the stump on Saturday.

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