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Donna Brazile: I considered replacing Clinton with Biden as 2016 Democratic nominee
Washington Post ^

Posted on 11/04/2017 12:22:08 PM PDT by springwater13

Former Democratic National Committee head Donna Brazile writes in a new book that she seriously contemplated replacing Hillary Clinton as the party’s 2016 presidential nominee with then-Vice President Biden in the aftermath of Clinton’s fainting spell, in part because Clinton’s campaign was “anemic” and had taken on “the odor of failure.”

In an explosive new memoir, Brazile details widespread dysfunction and dissension throughout the Democratic Party, including secret deliberations over using her powers as interim DNC chair to initiate the process of removing Clinton and running mate Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.) from the ticket after Clinton’s Sept. 11, 2016, collapse in New York City.

Brazile writes that she considered a dozen combinations to replace the nominees and settled on Biden and Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.), the duo she felt most certain would win over enough working-class voters to defeat Republican Donald Trump. But then, she writes, “I thought of Hillary, and all the women in the country who were so proud of and excited about her. I could not do this to them.”

Brazile paints a scathing portrait of Clinton as a well-intentioned, historic candidate whose campaign was badly mismanaged, took minority constituencies for granted and made blunders with “stiff” and “stupid” messages. The campaign was so lacking in passion for the candidate, she writes, that its New York headquarters felt like a sterile hospital ward where “someone had died.”

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KEYWORDS: 2016demprimary; baloney
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To: springwater13

“Odor of Failure” and Clinton just roll off the tongue.


141 posted on 11/04/2017 1:49:03 PM PDT by rod1 (CTLY)
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To: atc23
Kaine was doing immeasurable damage to Xlinton. Most people look at those brown, crooked teeth, the lisp and the pedophile countenance with disdain. Xlinton has horrible judgement thinking he’d be an asset or would do any good at all

Kaine may have those issues, but he made no difference on that ticket. That election was all about Clinton. Didn't matter who the Veep was.

142 posted on 11/04/2017 1:50:53 PM PDT by Pappy Smear
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To: springwater13

While I’d never suggest Biden, he was both the natural successor and a thousand percent less voter-detested than HilLIARy. He could have won Just by not being Old HillOfSh!t


143 posted on 11/04/2017 2:00:24 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: sphinx
"Brazile recommended Clinton see an acupuncturist."

Hillary could have just used the pins she sticks into her Trump doll.

144 posted on 11/04/2017 2:09:20 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
"So she wrote it in her book but is now taking it back LOL.."

Reminds me of Clinton Treasury official Josh Steiner who in 1994, claimed he lied in his diary.

Treasury Official Is Disavowing Whitewater Details in His Diary

145 posted on 11/04/2017 2:13:04 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Terry Mross
"Hillary treated Donna like crap."

But she chose to stay with her all those years. Must have been some reason she enjoyed being Hillary's "house n***er."

146 posted on 11/04/2017 2:15:07 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Ann Archy
p07

He is fluent in Spanish and they thought it would generate Hispanic turnout at rallies and the polls.

No, really.

147 posted on 11/04/2017 2:20:11 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: ichabod1

Clean up this mess and tell Obama to get me a drink.


148 posted on 11/04/2017 2:29:37 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: dp0622

I have now changed my mind. I want hillary to run again. The mess she creates in the dem party will be fantastic


149 posted on 11/04/2017 2:59:51 PM PDT by RummyChick (I have no inside sources, media sources, or federal government employee sources. NONE)
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To: Pappy Smear

Yes, but the fact that Kankles chose a castrated boring creepy clown as VP spoke volumes about her terrible judgement.

Picking a running mate is a huge first decision for any POTUS candidate, and she picked a retarded version of Pennywise the Evil Clown from “It.”

LMAO


150 posted on 11/04/2017 3:05:46 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves."a)
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To: springwater13

Heck, all of you are assuming she actually wrote the book. Ghost written by some dem-o-rat hack?


151 posted on 11/04/2017 3:14:33 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: Rusty0604

Wouldn’t it be hooting hilarious if Donna Brazile outsells Hillary’s “What Happened” by a ton?

How’s Hillary going to blame it on? “Rank Sexism”? “Russians”?


152 posted on 11/04/2017 3:25:59 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: springwater13

First thing you gotta ask is how are the clintons involved with this diversion.


153 posted on 11/04/2017 3:36:02 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Buttons12; Terry Mross; ichabod1; miss marmelstein; Vaquero; TomGuy; springwater13; Eddie01; ...


154 posted on 11/04/2017 3:44:19 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Libtards wish anarchy and death for others, but exempt themselves.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

:-)


155 posted on 11/04/2017 4:07:41 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: springwater13
Donna Brazile: I considered replacing Clinton with Biden as 2016 Democratic nominee...uh, Donna - the Clintons had in effect purchased your party - they were the owners - if anyone could have been replaced it would have been you - you're lucky they kept you on.....
156 posted on 11/04/2017 4:42:16 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Jim 0216
Add Donna Brazile to Hillary’s list of who to blame for her loss.

"What Happened - Vol. 2"

157 posted on 11/04/2017 5:02:14 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: RummyChick

She’s a witch so she might live a long time with help from the dark side.

She IS thinking about how to run again in 2020.

I don’t care what anyone says.


158 posted on 11/04/2017 7:13:33 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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