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Democrats See Danger in Trump’s Developing Anti-Clinton Strategy
National Review ^ | 05/06/2016 | BRENDAN BORDELON Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435069/donald-trump-democrats

Posted on 05/06/2016 9:13:33 AM PDT by MaxistheBest

Listen for a few minutes to Republicans in the “Never Trump” camp, and you’d think the outcome of November 8’s election a foregone conclusion. Donald Trump’s unfavorables are so high, they argue, his bridges to minority voters so thoroughly burnt, that Hillary Clinton will inevitably trounce him in a landslide akin to Lyndon Johnson’s historic victory against Barry Goldwater in 1964.

But talk to Democratic strategists and you’ll hear a different story. Despite Clinton’s persistent lead in the polls, many of them are far from sanguine about her prospects against the presumptive Republican nominee. They view Trump’s ability to harness the anger of America’s dispossessed white working class as a powerful threat in several Midwestern swing states, especially now that he’s openly courting Bernie Sanders supporters and aping the Vermont senator’s rhetoric on trade. They worry the New York real-estate mogul’s brash, bullying campaign style could throw the easily flustered Clinton off balance, upending her campaign at a crucial moment. And they fear that a relentlessly negative campaign would turn women voters away from politics altogether, depriving Clinton of the votes she’ll need to overcome Trump’s likely advantage with white men.....

.......“Donald Trump was always going to be the hardest candidate, because he is so unconventional. . . . I think this has the potential to be as close as the 2000 election.”

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“This attack on the elites, this populism is a right-left phenomenon,” says Hank Sheinkopf, a New York–based Democratic strategist and a veteran of past Clinton campaigns. “Bernie Sanders used it. Donald Trump is going to use it. And Hillary Clinton will be portrayed as an elitist who doesn’t understand the economic dilemma that people who work for a living are having.”

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; clinton; election; election2016; newyork; trump
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To: HarleyLady27

LOL!


41 posted on 05/06/2016 11:02:05 AM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: GregoTX
I wonder if we should pull the list of hillarys biggest donors so we can predict our next republican presidential nominee.

What, you got a look at Trump's hands and you got a little envy going on there???

42 posted on 05/06/2016 11:41:25 AM PDT by Iscool
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