That was poorly handled all the way. Someone in Cankles cadre pushed up the timing, and that in turn broke the fulcrum badly; notably last week when they tried to graft it onto down-ticket, when most of those were actually scheduled-way-in-advance appearances with safe Donk district mandarins.
It will be interesting to read how it was botched internally in a future wikileak.
Hillary/DNC/GOPe have underestimated the anger of the electorate at them all cycle. The psyops/gas light polling was ludicrous.. If they had planted polls showing Hillary up 3 or 4 maybe, but polls showing 8and even 12 point leads are just laughable.
At 3 or 4 dejected can say maybe I am missing something. Maybe polls are right.. But at 7-10 or 12 points?? That’s too big a gap for the observable reality. Hillary can’t fill a fire hall but she’s up double digits?? Or even high single digits? Her VP candidate is stumping out of the back of a pickup truck to 25 people, but she’s up that much? Just not believable. And once the shock value wears off it just angers and motivates those it’s trying to depress even more.