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Hillary Clinton’s run-out-the-clock strategy
The Politico ^ | August 24, 2016 | Annie Karni

Posted on 08/24/2016 5:17:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The Democrat aims to ignore the email and Foundation controversies, seeing a shrinking calendar as her friend.

She is not planning on sitting for another televised armchair confessional to rehash regrets about a private email server. Nor is the campaign setting up the kind of war room employed last year to discredit a book that aimed to expose a quid-pro-quo relationship between Clinton Foundation donors and State Department officials.

With 75 days until Election Day and new emails once again casting a pall over her campaign, Hillary Clinton aims to “run out the clock,” confidants say, on the latest chapters of the overlapping controversies that have dogged her campaign since the start.

According to allies and operatives close to the campaign, Clinton’s team thinks “they can ride out” any negative reaction to a set of new emails that show Clinton Foundation officials trying to set up State Department meetings for donors during her tenure as the nation's top diplomat.

“That doesn’t mean no response,” one Clinton team insider said, “but a muted one rather than a five-alarm fire.”

It's a strategy borne, in part, of a belief held deeply by Clinton herself that the email controversy is a fake scandal and that voters are as sick of it as the candidate herself — and by the profound weaknesses of Clinton's opponent....

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties
KEYWORDS: clinton; dncstrategy; hillary; hillary2016; trump
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1 posted on 08/24/2016 5:17:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s a strategy borne, in part, of a belief held deeply by Clinton herself that the email controversy is a fake scandal and that ......the Ministry of Propaganda will cover for her


2 posted on 08/24/2016 5:23:12 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Running out the clock is exactly what the sick old bitty is doing. Hiding out and staying out of “indian territory” while opening pickle jars for metrosexual fairies in Snowflakeland like little Jimmie Kimmel who can’t do it himself.


3 posted on 08/24/2016 5:24:30 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Government and Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: Aaron0617

How will she hide from these questions during the debates?


4 posted on 08/24/2016 5:24:43 PM PDT by Aaron0617
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More like a strategy of having NO PLAUSIBLE DEFENSE!!!


5 posted on 08/24/2016 5:26:15 PM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The health concerns have got traction. Hey, if she runs a marathon tomorrow, people will say, "Boy, she's healthy!" and it will go away. But that is not likely to happen.

The corruption concerns have got traction. Frankly, I don't see any way in which the email/bribery can suddenly "go away".

It only gets worse for her.

Add in an actual advertising campaign by Trump, and the debates, and she will be crushed. The media already went "all-in". They cannot maintain that level of blind worship for 70+ days. It's over.

6 posted on 08/24/2016 5:31:34 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Silence will be good. Trump needs to keep chipping away at her credibility and place the thought in people’s heads that Hillary took bribes and laundered them through the Clinton Foundation.


7 posted on 08/24/2016 5:31:51 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
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To: Aaron0617

Who wil be the debate moderators? You can bet if they are liberals, they will steer clear of the email scandal and the money laundering through their foundation.


8 posted on 08/24/2016 5:34:13 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
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To: Aaron0617
How will she hide from these questions during the debates?

During the debates, Donald Trump needs to cite two or three specific examples where someone requested a meeting with Hillary, then made a sizable donation to the Clinton Foundation, was subsequently granted access, and a received favorable decision from the State Department. He needs to spell it out as "Step A happened, then Step B, then Step C, etc. Simply making a general statement about the foundation and calling her "crooked Hillary" won't be enough to get through to the low information voters.

9 posted on 08/24/2016 5:35:18 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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"How will she hide from these questions during the debates?"

Who do you think will ask the questions? Do you think they will press for an answer?

10 posted on 08/24/2016 5:36:17 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a scuzzball.


11 posted on 08/24/2016 5:39:18 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Blood of Tyrants

How abouot debates without moderators?


12 posted on 08/24/2016 5:39:22 PM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, Hillary, as the Terminator would say, “Hasta la vista, Baby!”


13 posted on 08/24/2016 5:40:40 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Jane Long; BlackFemaleArmyCaptain; Black Agnes; djstex; RoosterRedux; DoughtyOne; ..
RIDE IT OUT my south end of a jackass headed north!!!

She couldn't ride any thing any where, that's why the media is running her campaign, she can't think, she can't say a complete sentence, she can't go to LA where the floods are because she can't raise her 220 lb. butt in a boat because it would sink it...and she can't walk unless someone is on both sides of her, plus she can't do stairs unless someone is lifting her up...

She is done for...and another bit the dust...stick a fork in her, it's over, she just doesn't have the brain cells God gave a pissant to realize it yet...her own husband, the real one, Bill, not Trump as she tried to say the other day, even knows she can't endure this, and Trump nor Pence is letting up in the least little bit...they are both ‘on message’ and doing 2 rallies a day across the country...and she has to take the weekends off...to rest, or get doped up again to try and make another 2 days if even that...

The emails are NOT going to go away, they are going to drip, drip, drip her until she falls flat on her old, wrinkled ugly face...and trying to blame Powell for her using an unsecured server, give me a break, even Condi Rice came out with him today and called her a liar...this ugly, wrinkled old hag wouldn't know the truth if it hit her in the butt...

She didn't do anything as First idiot of Arkansas, she didn't do anything while she was Senator, a carpet bagger no less, and she certainly didn't make any peace treaties or anything else, other than sell off our secrets and land and mineral rights to every foreign country there is...and then there is that Barky idiot that was somehow voted in twice, how I don't understand it, everyone I talk to says they didn't vote for him, so he must have had a Muslim miracle of something to get him there is as bad as the wrinkled up old bitty, him bowing down to everybody and their dogs EXCEPT for the American People and he only shoved it up our butts every chance he got and still is...and there isn't one ‘spineless sissy’ Representative or Senator, or FBI, or CIA or anyone else with the guts to put the whole darn government into prison cells where they belong...

Ok, I'm done with my rant...

14 posted on 08/24/2016 5:41:26 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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Hee hee....say it!!

She could ride her broomstick. She could ride the lightning. Oh, and her scooter.

That’s about all she can ride :)


15 posted on 08/24/2016 5:45:23 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She’s just going to lie her way into the white house? The two biggest liars in American political history (that’s right two) think they’re so much smarter than the rest of us.

I hope they’re dead wrong.


16 posted on 08/24/2016 5:48:59 PM PDT by Bullish (That establishment heads from both sides are exploding over Trump is the very best part.)
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To: Aaron0617
How will she hide from these questions during the debates?

she will have help from the moderators - they will not dare ask any questions about the emails or the pay for play deal

17 posted on 08/24/2016 5:51:04 PM PDT by Cyclone59 (Where are we going, and what's with the handbasket?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And we wonder why the Bolsheviks executed the entire Romanov family.


18 posted on 08/24/2016 5:51:04 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: GreenHornet
Donald Trump needs...two or three specific examples where someone requested a meeting with Hillary, then made a sizable donation...was subsequently granted access, and ...received favorable decision from the State Department.

That could be devastating but I don't think he has such examples yet. One hopes that upcoming Assange email disclosures may bring them.

19 posted on 08/24/2016 5:52:32 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wonderful! Measure those drapes, Hillary!


20 posted on 08/24/2016 5:53:27 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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