Hillary Clinton’s run-out-the-clock strategy

The Politico ^ | August 24, 2016 | Annie Karni

[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....

[KC_Conspirator]

Good. This is a terrible strategy, especailly since they are way over estimating their position.

[ballplayer]

Trump and every one of his supporters in every media interview should just state,where is Hillary folks,why won’t she come before the American People in a news conference and answer why she put the American government up for sale?
She can’t face The American people who she expects to vote for her? The country has to many problems facing it to elect an individual who has sold out the Country for her own benefit and will not face you explain this corruption,she does not deserve your precious vote at this critical time in our History

[ballplayer]

Trump and every one of his supporters in every media interview should just state,where is Hillary folks,why won’t she come before the American People in a news conference and answer why she put the American government up for sale?
She can’t face The American people who she expects to vote for her? The country has to many problems facing it to elect an individual who has sold out the Country for her own benefit and will not face you explain this corruption,she does not deserve your precious vote at this critical time in our History

[ballplayer]

Trump and every one of his supporters in every media interview should just state,where is Hillary folks,why won’t she come before the American People in a news conference and answer why she put the American government up for sale?
She can’t face The American people who she expects to vote for her? The country has to many problems facing it to elect an individual who has sold out the Country for her own benefit and will not face you explain this corruption,she does not deserve your precious vote at this critical time in our History

[IM2MAD]

Do you have the hiccups?

[hal ogen]

I bet the criminal old hag will take the 5th Amendment in the debate. Also, she will state “I can’t recall” multiple times prior to collapsing and being taken off stage on a gurney.

[hal ogen]

Criminal shrew hag hillary clinton will push hard to have her lawyers be moderators. That failing, she will push for pelosi or mark rich. Either way she will refuse to answer any questions and mess her self before collapsing.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Someone suggested that Trump attack then in the middle of the debate ask Hillary if she feels okay and suggest that they can take a break so she can sit down for awhile.

[poconopundit]

Very good, V K. I wish Nigel Farage was an American. We can use his Thomas Paine skills mightily to help Mr. Trump.

When he spoke, he said an interesting English verb we don't hear that often in the USA.

Rather than "We defeated the Establishment", he said, "We smashed the Establishment."

I love that word "smash". I need to pepper my own writing with great words like that.

[V K Lee]

After hearing this man speak, it is now understood why Briton voted in the way that they did. He is a powerful speaker. That fact cannot be denied. Our faded politicians are unable to come close to generating that type of excitement. Not even with BOOST to I see JEB! on stage attempting to generate the passion seen with Farage.