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Inside the Clinton Team’s Plan to Defeat Donald Trump
Inside the Clinton Team’s Plan to Defeat Donald Trump
In the days after Donald J. Trump vanquished his Republican rivals in South Carolina and Nevada, prominent Democrats supporting Hillary Clinton arranged a series of meetings and conference calls to tackle a question many never thought they would ask: How do we defeat Mr. Trump in a general election?
Several Democrats argued that Mrs. Clinton, should she be her party’s nominee, would easily beat Mr. Trump. They were confident that his incendiary remarks about immigrants, women and Muslims would make him unacceptable to many Americans. They had faith that the growing electoral power of black, Hispanic and female voters would deliver a Clinton landslide if he were the Republican nominee.
But others, including former President Bill Clinton, dismissed those conclusions as denial. They said that Mr. Trump clearly had a keen sense of the electorate’s mood and that only a concerted campaign portraying him as dangerous and bigoted would win what both Clintons believe will be a close November election.
That strategy is beginning to take shape, with groups that support Mrs. Clinton preparing to script and test ads that would portray Mr. Trump as a misogynist and an enemy to the working class whose brash temper would put the nation and the world in grave danger. The plan is for those themes to be amplified later by two prominent surrogates: To fight Mr. Trump’s ability to sway the news cycle, Mr. Clinton would not hold back on the stump, and President Obama has told allies he would gleefully portray Mr. Trump as incapable of handling the duties of the Oval Office.
Democrats say they risk losing the presidency if they fail to take Mr. Trump seriously, much as Republicans have done in the primary campaign.
“He’s formidable, he understands voters’ anxieties, and he will be ruthless against Hillary Clinton,” said Gov. Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut. “I’ve gone from denial — ‘I can’t believe anyone would listen to this guy’ — to admiration, in the sense that he’s figured out how to capture everyone’s angst, to real worry.”
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We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: Inside the Clinton Team’s Plan to Defeat Donald Trump
I agree that Donald Trump (should he get the R-tribe nomination) will not be someone to be dismissed as if Hillary is a shoe in because of it. Quite the contrary. There are a LOT of people upset with their position in life, the current establishment politicans, etc. Trump has a lot of "one liners" that appeal to their anxieties about a lot of things. Unfortunately Mr Trumps plans are pretty much without substance, but his bravado on his plans seems to overshadow peoples willingness to dig further.
So, the Trump vs Clinton will be a knock-down-drag-out event. I DO expect Clinton would win the contest. A lot of people will be holding their noses no matter which of the two they wind up voting for.
One thing for sure, we have never (or at least as long as I can remember) had such a character attempting to become the POTUS (some including me hope we never will have again)
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"