Donald Trump’s risky plan to use the Internet to suppress Hillary Clinton’s turnout
Source: Washington Post
This quote, from a spectacular Bloomberg story about the Donald Trump campaign's final electoral push, neatly summarizes the giant gamble that the campaign is taking: "There’s really not that much of a difference between politics and regular marketing," an unnamed senior official told Bloomberg's Joshua Green and Sasha Issenberg.
That's the bet, right there. That's the linchpin of this whole thing.
But before we get to that, let's unearth the buried story-within-the-story.
"We have three major voter suppression operations under way," another campaign official told Green and Issenberg. The campaign is targeting young white liberals, young women and black voters with negative ads focused on Hillary Clinton's politics, Bill Clinton's past and comments Clinton made in the 1990s about black criminals.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/27/donald-trumps-risky-plan-to-use-the-internet-to-suppress-hillary-clintons-turnout/
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