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Clinton shrugs, sees benefits in Trump's personal attacks
AP ^ | 05/22/2016 | By LISA LERER and CATHERINE LUCEY

Posted on 05/22/2016 7:42:50 AM PDT by RayofHope

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Clinton has a message for Donald Trump: keep on talking.

She's just weeks away from wrapping up the Democratic presidential nomination, and friends, aides and supporters describe a candidate who isn't particularly rattled by what she expects will be Trump's increasingly direct attacks on her marriage and husband's personal indiscretions.

In fact, Clinton believes that she can turn Trump's deeply personal assaults to her benefit, they say, particularly among suburban women who could be crucial to her hopes in the fall. Her plan is never to engage in any back-and-forth over the scandals. Instead, she'll merely cast him as a bully and talk about policy.

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TOPICS: Campaign News
KEYWORDS: clinton; trump
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To: Helicondelta

“She is following the Jeb playbook.”

The 2012 Romney Playbook is what popped into my mind when I started reading this. Pretty much the same playbook, though.


21 posted on 05/22/2016 10:33:35 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: RayofHope

sure sure...

I’m guessing ashtrays are flying behind closed doors


22 posted on 05/22/2016 10:48:38 AM PDT by Bubba Gump Shrimp (A Liberal is someone who cannot accept that there is a Law of Unintended Consequences)
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To: RayofHope
I wonder if she see's a benefit in Trumps latest tweet:

"Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 17m17 minutes ago
How can Crooked Hillary say she cares about women when she is silent on radical Islam, which horribly oppresses women?"

I think this will be the straw that breaks the camel's back so to speak when it comes to Hiltlery and women. Trump is going to hammer this one relentlessly. The media has never challenged her with the subject. Let the games begin

23 posted on 05/22/2016 1:04:35 PM PDT by RayofHope (I want to be sick of winning!)
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To: RayofHope

The benefits are obvious. Early, unplanned retirement suits her well.


24 posted on 05/22/2016 3:21:51 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: RayofHope

She has even thinner skin than Obama. She has never “shrugged” anything off in her life.


25 posted on 05/23/2016 6:55:44 AM PDT by denydenydeny ("World History is not full of good governments, or of good voters either "--P.J. O'Rourke)
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