Posted on 08/26/2016 12:38:48 PM PDT by V K Lee
Hillary Clinton has hit a rough patch at a critical time in the race for the White House.
A new batch of 14,900 emails found by the FBI is threatening to throw her off message, and the drip-drip release of emails will be something to contend with through Election Day.
The Democratic nominee's campaign is also facing new questions about the Clinton Foundation after separate emails were released that showed a foundation official seeking time with Clinton for a donor.
Days later, The Associated Press ran a story, which the Clinton campaign has repeatedly attacked, detailing links between Clinton Foundation donors and meetings with former Secretary of State Clinton.
If that weren’t enough, a lingering GOP perjury threats looms over Brooklyn, as House Republicans have promised action this fall.
The string of negative headlines follows weeks of good news for Clinton.
A successful convention and repeated mistakes by Republican nominee Donald Trump have strengthened her standing as the favorite to be elected president.
A Quinnipiac poll released on Thursday found her with a 10-point lead over Trump, and battleground state maps suggest she could win the presidency even if she loses the critical battleground states of Florida and Ohio, where polls show she is running neck-and-neck or ahead of Trump.
To an extent, it makes the bad headlines easier to accept, though Clinton allies are nonetheless worried the campaign could lose momentum after a rough week.
“Typical,” said one Clinton surrogate. “We have a good few weeks with the wind at our backs and then something unexpected comes out and shoots us in the foot.”
Clinton sought to pivot on Thursday with a speech that ripped Trump’s association with white nationalists. The speech raised links between the billionaire and the “alt-right” movement, and specifically hit Trump for re-tweeting white supremacist Twitter accounts.
“Trump’s lack of knowledge or experience or solutions would be bad enough," Clinton said. "But what he’s doing here is more sinister. Trump is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters."
The new aggressive attack from Clinton comes after a solid week on the campaign trail for Trump, who is winning applause for a campaign reboot.
Since hiring a new campaign team, the real estate tycoon for the most part has stuck to the teleprompter and his talking points. Late last week, he even traveled to flood-ravaged Louisiana, putting Clinton and President Obama on the defensive.
It was a reverse from the Trump, who has made a series of gaffes in recent weeks, from attacking a Gold Star military family to suggesting “Second Amendment people” may be able to prevent Clinton from making judicial nominees, a story that dominated the news cycle for several days.
“He’s been incredibly disciplined recently,” said one top Democratic strategist, who attributed Trump’s recent success to his new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway. “No major eruptions. When that happens, I’d expect the polls to tighten up.”
Clinton has been forced to play defense this week over the Clinton Foundation.
In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday evening, she said he work as secretary of State was “not influenced by outside forces.”
“I know there’s a lot of smoke and there’s no fire,” she said.
Aides and Democrats close to the Clinton campaign think their candidate can survive the recent pitfalls, particularly given her opponent.
“I still think the email and foundation issues, while they will continue to be something of a distraction, are not fatal, and pale in comparison to the problems Trump faces,” one longtime Clinton adviser said.
Still, the Clinton team cannot afford to be complacent or overconfident.
Last weekend, The Washington Post reported that Clinton has started “ramping up” for a possible presidency as polls indicated the former first lady had widened her lead over Trump. The story indicated that Clinton has an agenda that includes passing immigration reform along with measures focusing on job creation and taking on increased infrastructure projects.
Democrats say Clinton must do whatever she can to keep the focus on Trump, and not on her own controversies.
“What she needs to do is keep beating up on Trump,” said Brad Bannon, a Democratic strategist. “The more this is about Donald Trump, the more likely it is that she's going to win. She needs to put the onus of the campaign back on him.”
Clinton has a heavy advantage over Trump among minority voters, according to polls. She also is doing well with women in general, and college-educated white voters in particular.
Thursday’s speech linking Trump to racism is targeted toward all of those voters.
Trump is seeking to fight back, both with an appeal to minority voters and by calling Clinton a “bigot” during an event Wednesday night.
As she faces increasing scrutiny, allies acknowledge it highlights the larger problem that looms over her campaign: Trust.
Yesterday’s speech was to give marching orders to the mainstream media—talk about Trump the fascist, not about the emails or other scandals or Hillary’s health.
Hillary’s campaign is like a bullet train speeding towards a washed-out bridge. The Clintons think they can fool all of the people all of the time... They can’t.
Question: inasmuch as Trump's statements were at single events, before limited audiences, is paying millions to send them repeatedly, daily, into rooms where children are playing and watching TV, which candidate displays the lesser discretion and judgment?
To take the subject to another level as far as parental discretion is concerned, how does one teach honesty and trust to children by supporting a candidate who dissembles, evades truth, and whose history is avoiding honesty in order to cover inappropriate behavior?
Just asking....
She covers up all the real news about her previous actions with this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-0SMTgUsrVc
It didn’t throw her off message in her last speech. She just ignored it (the email scandal and pay-for-play drip drips) entirely, along with all the dire issues facing the country, and played the race card and the unfit-to-be-president card, demagoguing furiously against Trump. And she will continue to avoid news conferences. The upcoming debates are taking on immense significance.
With their large army of media lackeys in tow, they still feel they can fool just enough people this time to get in the white house.
People will vote for Hillary because she represents what they want:
Abortion
Welfare
Crony capitalism
Unions
Government jobs
They don’t really care much at all about Hillary the person.
While she was pretty good at it before working for BO his first term, there is nothing like a high profile position in this regime to hone the skill.
I love how they push these as "gaffes", when they were perfectly legitimate statements, and even more reason to vote FOR him. Idiots in the press...
They dont need to, just 5-10% is enough.
Must say, those of us who happen to remember her from 15 years ago are aware of how she has managed to hone her message. And now realize she is more of a liar than she was ever given credit for.
That old song, ‘Just keep it up and see what happens’ sometimes is repeated in my mind.
Together we bind arm in arm to make AMERICA great, again.
TRUMP all the way to the White House!
We are going to have to work harder than we ever have
The majority of the population does not have cable or internet
They are at the mercy of local news and word of mouth keeping them in line and feeding their low information minds with more garbage.
Wish we could get the films CLINTON CASH and. HILLARYs AMERICA into people’s hands/heads
Agent Burns speaking of the phony praise she was bestowing on him....”I almost....” LOL he went on to say “believed her’. I believed he was about to finish his sentence with the words...’Threw Up’
The Clintons have made few friends during their public life. Hopefully, I’ll live to see the two buried with no mourners showing outpourings of grief.
It didn’t throw her off message in her last speech. She just ignored it
and talked about our minority Olympians. As if we did not scream and cheer for them?
I pay attention and she has little of substance in her limited campaign appearances.
Clinton’s closest adviser, Abedin, is tied to the 9/11 attacks. Clinton is a degenerate to associate with Abedin.
Well we do know that ILLiary’s America is found on a you tube video and the site has been sent to a number of personal friends and family members with requests to pay it forward. Even dropped for delivery on a few sites that are visited Have yet to see the Clinton Cash movie on you tube.
It was read somewhere, here?? That a gentleman put on his TRUMP hat and went bowling *or whatever* in certain places across america. His hat was, of course, a topic of discussion thus giving him an open door to share opinions and ideas with persons from various walks of life.
Certainly would be nice to see RSBN air the AMERICA movie during their evening broadcast, if could even be possible. Until the wall of silence is broken, our crew would always be running just to catch up. Change in attitude of news distribution is greatly needed.
Typical boot-licking Media crap.
Save mention of the biggest single issue facing Hillary for the very last word in the article.
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