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The Clintons Are Nervous About 2020
The Atlantic ^ | April 29, 2019 | Edward-Isaac Dovere

Posted on 05/10/2019 8:06:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The Clintons are on edge about 2020. Like pretty much every other Democrat in America, Bill and Hillary are nervous that their party’s primary field is too large, that it’s going to be dominated by the wrong kind of debate, that the candidates will succumb to their worst instincts, and that President Donald Trump will out-bully them anyway.

While Trump was holding a campaign rally in Wisconsin on Saturday night, the once and would-be presidents spent the evening onstage, in the latest stop of the traveling show they’ve been doing all around the country for a combination of cash and adulation, being otherwise forced into retirement earlier than planned. There’s a bit of a farewell-concert-tour feeling to the event—Hillary, tell the story of the Osama bin Laden raid one more time! Bill, do a riff on the 1996 Israeli elections! Remember Arkansas? Look at all the little ways we tease each other in our marriage!

Worries over #MeToo associations kept many campaigns from booking Bill Clinton on the trail during the 2018 midterm election season, and Hillary Clinton has taken on a distinctive role in American politics, as both the jilted savior and the pariah, the embodiment of Democrats’ fantasies of how things could have turned out differently, but also of their fears of losing another election they can’t comprehend not winning.

But a week and a half after the release of the redacted Mueller report, three days after Joe Biden got into the presidential race pitching a Hillary Clinton–esque campaign rooted in experience and personal offense at what Trump represents, and two blocks from the White House, the 2020 race was clearly on their minds.

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


TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: 2020election; billandhill; clinton
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To: Churchillspirit

Then she had some poor soul sent to prison on false charges.


41 posted on 05/11/2019 6:43:23 AM PDT by sport
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To: Sa-teef

Don’t count on it. Clintons lie.


42 posted on 05/11/2019 6:48:22 AM PDT by sport
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To: sport

The Clinton’s also don’t do anything for anyone unless it puts money in their pocket. With the small crowds and heavy discounting on ticket prices it likely wasn’t making them the money they had hoped for, so they won’t bother.


43 posted on 05/11/2019 7:03:43 AM PDT by Sa-teef
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Worries over #MeToo associations kept many campaigns from booking Bill Clinton on the trail during the 2018 midterm election season...

What a gentle, delicate way of touching on the uncomfortable fact that Bill Clinton is a sexual predator.

44 posted on 05/11/2019 7:10:44 AM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Dem Primaries - When popcorn just isn’t enough...


45 posted on 05/11/2019 7:30:47 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: Lurker

So glad the emotion got captured on film. Evil won’t end well, Bill.


46 posted on 05/11/2019 9:33:05 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hillary has to be in even worse physical shape now than she was in the last election. I don’t know how she can continue.


47 posted on 05/11/2019 9:36:44 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Yaelle

LOL


49 posted on 05/11/2019 2:48:32 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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