Hillary Clinton

riversedge

(70,304 posts) Wed Mar 2, 2016, 12:25 PM Mar 2016

Hillary won't be making the same mistake with Trump as the Republican Party

Like so man things--my guess is that this will change also.

Salon.com ?@Salon 5m5 minutes ago

Hillary won't be making the same mistake with Trump as the Republican Party http://slnm.us/dICs6F4 pic.twitter.com/JlZv3Gh4Pc

Wednesday, Mar 2, 2016 04:57 AM CST
Hillary’s Trump strategy: Clinton has a secret weapon — which Cruz and Rubio missed out on — to take down the GOP front-runner
Clinton's campaign is taking Donald Trump seriously and giving itself a valuable anti-Trump resource: Time

Hillary's Trump strategy: Clinton has a secret weapon — which Cruz and Rubio missed out on — to take down the GOP front-runner
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton (Credit: Reuters/Randall Hill/Mike Segar/Photo montage by Salon)

Hillary Clinton is doing what pretty much every Republican in the country failed to do – she’s taking Donald Trump seriously. After last night’s Super Tuesday romp, it’s looking highly likely that Trump is on track to capture the Republican nomination. According to the New York Times, Team Clinton doesn’t want to get caught flat-flooted in a potential race against Trump and is already gaming out different strategies for taking on the Republican front-runner and neutralizing whatever appeal he might conceivably have in a general election. And that’s wise! The GOP underestimated Trump and the party’s determined neglect allowed him to engineer a coup within the Republican electorate. And it’s not inconceivable that Trump could pose a significant threat to core Democratic constituencies in electoral-vote rich Midwest states. Regardless of what happens, they’re smart to be prepared.

As for the actual anti-Trump strategy, here’s what the Times writes:

The plan has three major thrusts: Portray Mr. Trump as a heartless businessman who has worked against the interests of the working-class voters he now appeals to; broadcast the degrading comments he has made against women in order to sway suburban women, who have been reluctant to support Mrs. Clinton; and highlight his brash, explosive temper to show he is unsuited to be commander in chief.

There’s absolutely no shortage of material to work with on any of these fronts. Painting him as a predatory businessman shouldn’t be too difficult – Trump is already taking heat for his flagrant “Trump University” scam, ...................................

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Hillary won't be making the same mistake with Trump as the Republican Party (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2016 OP

Hillary's so smart.. I do just love her. Cha Mar 2016 #1

And, of course, she is right to do so. book_worm Mar 2016 #2

Sounds like a plan! pandr32 Mar 2016 #3

Turning a strength into a liability peggysue2 Mar 2016 #4

Trump is underestimating Clinton... Satch59 Mar 2016 #5

Cha

(297,661 posts)

1. Hillary's so smart.. I do just love her.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Mar 2, 2016, 12:32 PM

Mar 2016

Mahalo rivers~

book_worm

(15,951 posts)

2. And, of course, she is right to do so.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Mar 2, 2016, 12:35 PM

Mar 2016

pandr32

(11,614 posts)

3. Sounds like a plan!

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Mar 2, 2016, 12:50 PM

Mar 2016

peggysue2

(10,839 posts)

4. Turning a strength into a liability

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Mar 2, 2016, 12:53 PM

Mar 2016

The Republicans are beginning to wake up to this strategy. But as the article suggests, the GOP wasted precious time to actually get on top of the oppo research because . . . no one took The Donald seriously. Time is definitely Hillary Clinton's friend in the ultimate take down. The man does not have a political history but he definitely has a History. In fact, I've read that the Dems have spent the last 8-9 months collecting that history and only about 20% of the bad news has surfaced.

The other weapon is ridicule. Anyone who watched John Oliver this past Sunday witnessed a spectacular take down of the Hair that Ate New York. Brilliant and effective. Trump is not the Teflon Don. He's merely portrayed that way for ratings.

I also watched some of the post-election commentary. Of particular note were comments by Ben Ginsberg, a well-known Republican elections lawyer. The GOP will not go quietly into the night; they have certain cards up their sleeves which they will play ruthlessly. Ironic, too. Republicans always bray over the undemocratic nature of Super delegates but in this instance they're quite willing to pull out all the stops, the will of the voters be damned.

Expect fireworks on the horizon.

Satch59

(1,353 posts)

5. Trump is underestimating Clinton...

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Mar 2, 2016, 01:25 PM

Mar 2016

We've seen him become unhinged when attacked and to have him being taken down by Hillary will hit his ego in such a way that I don't think he will be able to control himself. She will be calm cool and collected and his head will explode on stage...could be fun to see...

I just hope a lot of damage will be done before the debates begin...and she can just come in for the final blow. I would also love to see the GOP panic enough to finally run a 3rd party candidate and then the Dems win easily...

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