Posted on 05/28/2016 9:10:09 PM PDT by Trumpinator
But early optimism that this would be an easy race is evaporating.
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“The guy’s a maniac,” John Burton, the chairman of the California Democratic Party, said about Mr. Trump.
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But it is the campaign’s approach to Mr. Trump that is making even Mrs. Clinton’s most loyal supporters uneasy.
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York is concerned that she lacks a comprehensive strategy to confront Mr. Trump, and has told Democrats that the Clinton campaign must bring on a senior staff member dedicated only to the Trump portfolio.
“As soon as she clinches the nomination, we need a high-level person in the campaign whose sole job is to respond to Trump, almost on an hourly basis,” said Mr. Schumer, who has begun conversations with Clinton officials about who could fill that role.
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Debates have broken out in Mrs. Clinton’s Brooklyn headquarters over the best approach to take.
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“Sometimes, you get the feeling that they’re in a professional boxing match and he’s in a street fight, and they’re coming in with their gloves on,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton, expressing dismay over the Clinton operation’s apparent lack of appetite for combat.
“This is a street fight with a guy with a razor and a broken Coca-Cola bottle,” he added, “and you’ve got to fight him like that.”
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For now, her aides appear to be throwing ideas against a wall to see what sticks, including trying out different monikers after the Democratic National Committee’s “Dangerous Donald” flopped. An internal favorite is “Poor Donald,” with its implication that Mr. Trump, famously defensive about his net worth, is not nearly as wealthy as he lets on.
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“It wouldn’t be a general election without some early bed-wetting from Washington insiders,” said Robby Mook, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign manager.
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The Nazi’s and the Soviet’s battles were much more fierce than the ones against the US. It seems the closer the ideology, the fiercer the fight.
It's one of our best weapons ;'}
Rave on, rave on!
They need the registered voter databases supposedly maintained by the states with the updates from each year. I’m not sure how beneficial an old database will be.
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