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‘Deplorables’ Comment Alienated Voters
A basket of deplorables - Hillary talking about 10's of millions of voters. A major turning point for the election.
This comment caused many undecided voters shift to Trump. According to Diane Hessan hired by the Clinton campaign.
‘Deplorables’ Comment Alienated Voters
Hillary Clinton likely alienated voters when she said on the campaign trail in September that half of Donald Trump’s supporters were “deplorables,” her campaign manager has finally acknowledged.
In an op-ed in the Boston Globe, Hessan wrote that she made contact with 300 undecideds and kept in touch with 250 throughout the campaign.After Clinton’s loss, Hessan said that she reviewed all of her notes given to her by the undecided voters.“All hell broke loose,” she wrote of her sample’s response to Clinton’s “deplorables” comment.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
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It was not fake news that beat Hillary. It was not the FBI notice to congress that beat Hillary. It was her actions and her actions alone that cost her the presidential election.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
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The "basket of deplorables" comment was Hillary Clinton's version of Mitt Romney's "47%" comment, for sure.
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It hurt, certainly.
But the assertion that it was not anything else is, at best, unsupported.
But, it does fit nicely into the narrative being spun the Trumpers.
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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One can say what they will about Trump. He did insult a lot of people, but one group that he never insulted is the voters. Hillary, like Mitt in 2012, turned it personal against the voters.
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The Man wrote:
One can say what they will about Trump. He did insult a lot of people, but one group that he never insulted is the voters. Hillary, like Mitt in 2012, turned it personal against the voters.
True, Trump only insulted the people that his voters hated.
Very smart.
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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One can say what they will about Trump. He did insult a lot of people, but one group that he never insulted is the voters. Hillary, like Mitt in 2012, turned it personal against the voters.
True, Trump only insulted the people that his voters hated.
Very smart.
It worked, so it was indeed smart.
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Yes, I granted that it was smart.
Unethical, but smart.
If ethics don't matter, it was a pure win.
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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Yes, I granted that it was smart.
Unethical, but smart.
If ethics don't matter, it was a pure win.
There's no such thing as ethics in politics. Hillary Clinton displayed that to the nation.
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Yes, I granted that it was smart.
Unethical, but smart.
If ethics don't matter, it was a pure win.
There's no such thing as ethics in politics. Hillary Clinton displayed that to the nation.
Ditto for Trump.
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