2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumClinton goes negative with Trump
Hillary Clinton is keeping a negative focus on Donald Trump in her campaign ads, which rarely focus on positive reasons why voters should back her campaign for the White House. The ads illuminate Clintons strategy: Portray Trump as unfit to be commander-in-chief and glide to victory this fall.
Opinion polls suggest the effort is working, and Trumps latest controversial remarks about Second Amendment peoplethwarting Clinton are unlikely to cause anyone on the Democrats campaign to suggest a new course.
Polls at present show her leading by a substantial margin nationally and across most battlegrounds, while even states that are usually GOP strongholds, such as Utah and Georgia, could be in play.
Her job right now is to beat the devil out of Trump while his negatives are up, to ensure those negatives remain in place even if he stages some kind of resurgence later, said Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic strategist in New York who has worked for Clinton in the past but has not done so during this campaign.
He does stupid things, she does stupid things, it doesnt matter just keep hitting him in the head, Sheinkopf added. The minute she lets Trump up, it will be a very bad day.
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http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/291001-clinton-goes-negative-with-trump
lillypaddle
(9,581 posts)part.
Squinch
(51,007 posts)Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)Hillary hasn't done anything close to the LEAST stupid thing Trump has done.
Squinch
(51,007 posts)It's very, very telling.
lame54
(35,321 posts)Squinch
(51,007 posts)lame54
(35,321 posts)Last edited Sat Aug 13, 2016, 04:48 PM - Edit history (1)
Many flaws before the convention
Squinch
(51,007 posts)Not sure why you couldn't answer the question and provide clarity
Squinch
(51,007 posts)And you responded to my answer, so why are you saying that I didn't answer the question?
lame54
(35,321 posts)i thought you were answering your own question - not mine
spooky3
(34,476 posts)Doesn't research show that negative ads do work? And he's helping by creating his own negatives.
INdemo
(6,994 posts)two states that bleed Red through to China,then we could be looking at a 50 state + PR,VI and Guam,historic landslide...
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Everyday how unfit he is. I would be disappointed if Hillary did not spend some time on the question.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)So this is the strategy she needs to go with till he is better known. That he is helping her out by shooting his mouth off is a bonus
Squinch
(51,007 posts)stick and he rises to the bait like clockwork and dominates the news with his stupidity for the next few days.
tanyev
(42,613 posts)Squinch
(51,007 posts)DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)and isn't. She just uses his own words AGAINST him. He's the one saying all these horrifying things.