You're joking, right? This has absolutely nothing to do with her being nonpartisan. They (repugs) are fishing to judge what they can tolerate if it becomes apparent that HRC is a slam-dunk, thus potentially facing a more liberal  candidate. Then, they will use a bunch of weasel words to make it look like they are being nonpartisan and go with O's choice. Both Senator's used Obama's name in only disparaging ways during the election so often that that  noun became a verb!