"Whisper" is the operative word. Anything else and there will be several immediate openings on the committee.
Whisper means they believe there is a huge issue. And they are worried she can’t pull it off. Most would like her to get into office. And then the press will kill her. But she will hide like a treed fox. It will turn into a 1980’s Soviet style death watch.
The person who will keep her alive in a closet somewhere will be whoever is Chief of Staff. Whether its Podesta or Blumenthal, either will take the cabinet and start running the country by themselves. They will hide her and release a quote from her every day.
On the other side will be Keane and the Press who will want her to resign in a big messy way that sells papers. They will be hunting her down like dogs after a fox. You could imagine her lasting two and a half years. And then Keane gets in just in time to run for President.