December 6 Time magazine carries the following clip of Mark Halperin’s remark in MSNBC‘s “Morning Joe” under the Led, “**The Hillary Clinton Republican Primary**.”

> “You talk to Republicans about ’16, and obviously people are already
> talking about it. For a lot of Republicans, now, what people are
> auditioning for is can you beat Hillary Clinton? If you don’t have the
> premise of beating her, the stature to beat her, the fundraising to
> beat her, Republicans say, “No need to apply,” because that is, right
> now, the prism they’re looking at.”

To me as a foreign reader, the title looks like as if Republicans are led by Hillary Clinton at the first sight, although “The” preposed Hillary suggest otherwise.

Is this a reasonable way of summation which is too obvious to native English speakers?