Posted on 12/14/2016 3:37:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Politico reports a “fear that Trump would win the popular vote while losing the electoral vote”
Hillary Clinton spent millions of dollars to attract voters in Chicago and New Orleans — despite having their respective states locked up — to keep Donald Trump from winning the popular vote, according to Politico.
Politico’s Edward-Isaac Dovere published a lengthy piece on Wednesday titled, “How Clinton lost Michigan – and blew the election,” that details how the Clinton campaign ignored the crucial battleground state of Michigan and focused on states that didn’t have a chance of impacting the Electoral College over fears that Trump would win the popular vote while losing the electoral vote — the very opposite of the scenario that played out in November.
Clinton won the popular vote by 2.8 million votes but lost the presidency, with Trump winning the Electoral College. Dovere, citing a dozen officials working for Clinton’s campaign, reported that an “ongoing fight about campaign tactics, an inability to get top leadership to change course” essentially cost her the presidency.
Dovere reports that the Clinton campaign neglected the state of Michigan, which went to Trump, and even turned away potential supporters who were looking for lawn signs and literature.
The article details how DNC chair Donna Brazile commanded the redirection of $5 million toward ads aimed at increasing minority voter turnout based on “fear that Trump would win the popular vote while losing the electoral vote.”
According to Dovere, the money was “dumped into Chicago and New Orleans, far from anywhere that would have made a difference in the election.”
Trump’s last stop of the campaign was a rally in Michigan, which may or may not have helped him win the state — and the election. Meanwhile, Louisiana predictably went to Trump and Illinois predictably went to Clinton, regardless of the extra money spent to get voters to turn out in those states’ inner-cities.
Not to mention California! Saw plenty of her stupid ads here too. She was definitely trying to run up the score on states she had no need to campaign for.
Dems are racists through and through...
Guess she was using the wrong rule book. Stupid broad.
Sounds like a winning strategy!
If Hillary Clinton mastered anything during her life, she mastered failure.
Interesting strategery. How to prove true? Podesta leakings don’t log same.
If the polls they apparently believed were correct, then 7% more Democrats were coming out for Hilliary than were for Obama. Did she really think she could get more real turn out in those cities than that?
How about factoring in the fraud?
Trump won Louisiana! So there is something wrong with this article.
Additionally the fact that Hillary resembled a screeching lunatic at her rallies. (and had screeching lunatic Elizabeth Warren along side her)
When I saw her ads in the Chicagoland area I thought she was doing poorly in Illinois, of all places. Words cannot express the joy I felt when DJT won and she lost.
saw lots of Clinton ads here in Minnesota, almost every commercial break had at least one attack ad against Trump and one showing how wonderful Clinton was. MN hasn’t gone republican since 1972.
She appeared out here in AZ about a week before the election and also blanketed, and I mean BLANKETED, the airwaves with her ads against Trump. For every 1 positive ad about herself she ran 5 or 6 negative ads against Trump.
BIG mistake...she was not going to win AZ this year. Complete waste of her time and money.
It was WAY over the top...you just got sick of hearing her voice even if you liked her. Like the too pushy salesman with his foot in your door.
Then there was Hillary who “expands the battlefield” with surprise spending in Arizona, Georgia, and even Utah!
She was racking up New Orleans voters for the “popular vote” scoreboard that they’re still crowing about.
*alongside
Planned to win the popular vote - while she lost the electoral vote.
Smart power.
As horrified as I was at the thought of another Clinton presidency in 2008 and 2016, I am amazed at the incompetence she has shown in losing those campaigns.
“Hillary Clinton spent millions of dollars to attract voters in Chicago and New Orleans — despite having their respective states locked up “
Well, NO, she didn’t have their respective states locked up. Trump took Louisiana, as everyone knew he would. There was no doubt Hillary would carry New Orleans.
So, does the author have any idea where New Orleans is?
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