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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHillary Clinton campaign trolls GOP by boosting Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton campaign trolls GOP by boosting Donald TrumpBy Greg Sargent, The Plumb Line, at the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/12/22/hillary-clinton-campaign-trolls-gop-by-boosting-donald-trump/
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Mr. Podesta said that Mr. Trump has demonstrated to be a serious candidate for the Republican nomination, and that he is someone who could very well be successful in their nominating process. People have come around to the conclusion that this isnt just going to go away at some point.
Its hard to know whether the Clinton camp really believes this. But one obvious possibility is that the Clinton camp is signaling to top supporters that they should publicly make the case that Trump now looks like a genuinely viable candidate to win the GOP primary. If so, this takes the Clinton camps trolling of GOP voters to another level: Hillary is attacking Trump because Democrats are afraid that hell become the nominee!!!
But there may be a deeper rationale here, too. As I reported the other day, Democrats plan to increasingly make the case that Trumps simplistic bluster and belligerence are forcing the other GOP candidates to dumb down their rhetoric to match his, thus revealing Clinton to be more prepared to lead in complicated and dangerous times than any of the GOP candidates.
This is a political and policy argument: Democrats are claiming that Trumps rhetoric has become a threat to national security, which in turn makes the other GOP candidates efforts to match it or at least, fail to condemn it in a full-throated fashion more consequential, and reveals Clinton to be a steadier, more reliable presence. (The bet is that, while all the bluster may appeal to GOP primary voters, it will taint the party in the eyes of the general election audience.) Clintons increasing efforts to highlight Trumps reckless anti-Muslim demagoguery not only gives Trump a way to boost himself among Republican voters, by arguing that he has emerged as Clintons chief foe; its also designed to advance that larger argument.
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Hillary Clinton campaign trolls GOP by boosting Donald Trump (Original Post)
applegrove
Dec 2015
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SunSeeker
(51,698 posts)1. K & R
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)2. It looks like Clinton is schlonging the Trump campaign.