I came across this somewhere - can’t remember where - but I agree with it: the one guy who turned the election is the guy who took the video of Hilary’s collapse at the 9/11 ceremony. And that’s *not* because of the negative effect it had on the public’s perception of Hilary’s physical fitness for the office (that helped) but rather because it forced her minions to spring the “p*ssygrabbing” audio much earlier than they had hoped, just to get her health episodes off the news.
Recall previous October surprises, like Bush’s DUI arrest, or Casper Weinberger’s indictment - those are always sprung during the last full week of the campaign, so there’s minimum opportunity for the negative effect to dissipate. Imagine if that had happened this time - a shift of a few tens of thousands of votes in PA, WI and MI and we’re looking at a different election night. Instead, the Hilary camp had to fire their howitzer way earlier than they’d anticipated, and by the time election day rolled around, nobody much other than the hard-core feminists really gave a rip about the Trump comments.
I read they had a powerful AI program, nicknamed Ada, that predicted Trump’s victory several weeks out. They could not accept that and instead, ordered the algorithms be reworked.
I thought the audio had to be released early because of the impact of a particularly damaging group of wiki leaks. I recall Newt arguing at the time that the media was spending a 10 or 20 times more time on the audio than on the latest Wiki leaks. Maybe it was both. I agree that was the key because the Trump numbers took a dive and some RINO’s started having second thoughts. Trump had time to recover.
Never forget the audio is associated with the Bush family.