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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: miss marmelstein

Hmmm, wonder why.


61 posted on 11/04/2017 12:48:47 PM PDT by EnquiringMind
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To: springwater13

Crooked Hillary’s campaign wasn’t “anemic” enough to lose support from the Bush family. Including low-energy Jeb!


62 posted on 11/04/2017 12:49:25 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: dp0622

Because Seth Rich gave the emails to Wikileaks..the Clintons found out and BAM he’s dead..that simple. No one “Robs” someone and takes NOTHING..he had a cell phone on him, etc..Ive never heard of a robbery where no items are taken. It would be like someone breaking into your home and taking nothing, not even a sandwich LOL


63 posted on 11/04/2017 12:49:35 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: miss marmelstein
You meant her tweet yesterday?
Donna Brazile ✔@donnabrazile Today’s lesson: Being quoted by Donald Trump means being MIS-quoted by Donald Trump. Stop trolling me. #NeverSaidHillaryRiggedElection 11:52 AM - Nov 3, 2017 · Boston, MA 1,516 Replies 2,127 Retweets 3,819 likes

See reactions here.

64 posted on 11/04/2017 12:49:40 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
ya, all of this seems like shots across the bow, to castrate the Clintons pre-emptively, so that Hillary will not even enter the 2020 race.

Yes, I think a couple of weeks ago I read somewhere where the writer was wondering if Hillary! was actually contemplating another run. He wrote that her behavior and the things she is doing right now, made him wonder if she is actually considering another run at being POTUS.

I am dismayed at the thought; but, these are the Clintons, and with Hillary!, one cannot dismiss the possibility of another run. She wants the power. He wants the interns. They both want the cash.

65 posted on 11/04/2017 12:49:59 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: dp0622

It’s in the article.


66 posted on 11/04/2017 12:50:18 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: 2banana
She tried to leave the plantation...but couldn’t.

Yep. They caught her running for her life across a neighboring county farm.

Now she's back in shackles and tomorrow she'll be chained to a tree and whipped by Hillary Clinton personally within an inch of her life.

67 posted on 11/04/2017 12:50:38 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: springwater13
p07

"I'll get back with her when I find my REO Speedwagon tape."

68 posted on 11/04/2017 12:51:28 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Sarah Barracuda

True!


69 posted on 11/04/2017 12:51:41 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: sphinx

> I wonder just how, exactly, Brazile thinks a party chairman can replace a nominee who has a majority of the delegates? <

Maybe the acupuncturist Brazile recommended to Hillary has other skill sets besides acupuncture.


70 posted on 11/04/2017 12:51:51 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: dp0622

Which means they have something/someone else waiting in the wings...maybe getting a bit impatient...


71 posted on 11/04/2017 12:52:39 PM PDT by EBH ( May God Save the Republic)
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To: dp0622

Also LOL those AntiFA protests turned into an EPIC FAIL..its not even trending on twitter..Donna Brazille is LOL too cool!


72 posted on 11/04/2017 12:53:26 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: springwater13

So Brazile now acknowledges that Shrillary’s physical collapse on 9/11/2016 was serious enough for the party to consider replacing her as nominee. Yet, the mediascum covered it up and pretended nothing had happened. Yet another indication of how dishonest the MSM types are. No Republican candidate could have gone through that situation without massive national scrutiny.


73 posted on 11/04/2017 12:54:41 PM PDT by Enchante (Bill, Anthony, Harvey .... how does lesbo Hillary manage to surround herself with male predators???)
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To: fso301
Donna seems so angry at hillary that one wonders if hillary had an affair with one of Donna’s girls?

Or maybe DB didn't like it when Hillary called her an old buffalo.

74 posted on 11/04/2017 12:54:42 PM PDT by Buttons12
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To: EBH

Yeah that black woman in congress, I think.

The new “rising star” that is going to defeat Trump.


75 posted on 11/04/2017 12:55:22 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I live 10 miles from Manhattan and didn’t even know there was one :)

But Staten Island may as well be 1000 miles away from Manhattan for all we have in common.


76 posted on 11/04/2017 12:56:16 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I know all that it was sarcasm


77 posted on 11/04/2017 12:56:28 PM PDT by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

78 posted on 11/04/2017 12:56:48 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: springwater13

All the women in the country who were so proud of and excited about her.
White water/stock market scam/e-mail and treason/Vince Foster/steal chins from WH/........................
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Those type of women nobody wants to meet they woulde kill you just for the insurance money.


79 posted on 11/04/2017 12:56:50 PM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: sphinx

DNC bylaws are that the chair calls a meeting of the whole National Committee and replacing a candidate is by majority vote.


80 posted on 11/04/2017 12:57:12 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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