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Donna Brazile: I considered replacing Clinton with Biden as 2016 Democratic nominee
Washington Post ^ | 11/4/2017 | Phil Rucker

Posted on 11/04/2017 1:52:34 PM PDT by advance_copy

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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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016demprimary; brazile; hillary; sethrich
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To: SaveFerris

I agree with your reply. It would have been really bad if Biden would have been given the candidacy over crazy Bernie during the final stages of the election. Bernie was fairly close to Clinton with dem voters..


21 posted on 11/04/2017 3:28:38 PM PDT by EVO X
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To: SaveFerris
Hollywood loved her

As did the Bushes, and I am not talking about landscaping. 8>)

22 posted on 11/04/2017 3:37:57 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (Yeah it does actually.)
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To: advance_copy

Hillarys campaign was “badly managed” because “smartest Woman In The world” micro -manager Hillary was the one doing the mis-managing.

She has been a failure at everything else she has done in her life (except avoiding indictment), why would running her own campaign produce a different result?


23 posted on 11/04/2017 3:43:11 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Robert DeLong; EVO X

We’ve been played by the Bushes and the Clintons for a long time. /Major Obvious, promoted from Captain


24 posted on 11/04/2017 3:44:08 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: EVO X
I would hope the republicans would have a back up plan in case something bad happened to their nominee.

Of course they did.

THEY were the ones trying to take out the nominee!

25 posted on 11/04/2017 3:46:42 PM PDT by digger48
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To: advance_copy

The fact that the former head of the DNC has now publicly stated that she feared for her life during the campaign, calling attention to the unsolved Seth Rich murder in this way, means that Mueller and Rosenstein MUST now make this a part of the current investigation.


26 posted on 11/04/2017 3:47:20 PM PDT by Enchante (Bill, Anthony, Harvey .... how does lesbo Hillary manage to surround herself with male predators???)
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To: Enchante

Not that I think the Russians did it or would have taken out Brazile. But Mueller and the FBI must now do everything possible to get to the bottom of this. Brazile has made it obvious that this is a NATIONAL political issue and not merely some “local” investigation


27 posted on 11/04/2017 3:50:01 PM PDT by Enchante (Bill, Anthony, Harvey .... how does lesbo Hillary manage to surround herself with male predators???)
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To: SaveFerris

I think it’s obvious he is a general by now. 8>)


28 posted on 11/04/2017 3:55:16 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (Yeah it does actually.)
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To: advance_copy

“Brazile writes that she inherited a national party in disarray, in part because President Obama, Clinton and Wasserman Schultz were “three titanic egos” who had “stripped the party to a shell for their own purposes.”

“Brazile writes that she inherited Wasserman Schultz’s office — with “tropical pink” walls that she found hard on the eyes — and “ridiculous” perks, such as a Chevrolet Tahoe with driver and a personal entourage that included an assistant known as a body woman.

“In her first few days on the job, Brazile writes that she also discovered the DNC was $2 million in debt and that the payroll was stacked with “hangers-on and sycophants.” For instance, Wasserman Schultz kept two consulting firms — SKDKnickerbocker and Precision Strategies — each on $25,000-a-month retainers, and one of Obama’s pollsters was still being paid $180,000 a year.”

It sounds like she was a fairly sensible woman, at least compared to everyone else in the DNC and the Clinton campaign.


29 posted on 11/04/2017 3:59:14 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: digger48

And still trying to do it after he got elected..


30 posted on 11/04/2017 4:04:23 PM PDT by EVO X
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To: advance_copy
“I’m not Patsey the slave,” Brazile recalls telling them, a reference to the character played by Lupita Nyong’o in the film, “12 Years a Slave.” “Y’all keep whipping me and whipping me and you never give me any money or any way to do my damn job. I am not going to be your whipping girl!”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show me the money!!!!!!!
31 posted on 11/04/2017 4:16:19 PM PDT by mandaladon (It's always good to be underestimated. ~Donald Trump)
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To: Nifster

She didn’t have to have that authority to contemplate it, which only goes to show how vacuous her contemplations are.


32 posted on 11/04/2017 4:28:25 PM PDT by rx (Truth Will Out!)
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To: advance_copy

The racism part of this story could get quite interesting.


33 posted on 11/04/2017 4:28:43 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: PhiloBedo

But after reading his encephalogram, she decided to just shut up.


34 posted on 11/04/2017 4:47:24 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Theophilous Meatyard III

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEWWRbn4zG0


35 posted on 11/04/2017 4:52:07 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

I doubt Olympia Dukakis would’ve won the Oscar TM without Mike’s candidacy.

She probably pondered just how big she could’ve been if he’d become grand poobah.


36 posted on 11/04/2017 5:33:39 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: advance_copy
Although ILLary won't admit what happened or the impact it had that collapse was a pivotal event.If what Brazille says is true at least *she* understood it.But ILLary would *not* have gone quietly and that war would have destroyed any chance that Plugs might otherwise have had.
37 posted on 11/04/2017 7:58:45 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: advance_copy
Is this the woman who fed Her Hellness Hitlery666™ the debate questions ahead of time?

"I WANT THOSE DEBATE QUESTIONS OR THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAYYYYY!"


38 posted on 11/05/2017 1:57:33 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan taking office.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Sorry, the whole thing smells of a distraction/deception operation. This is a battle for control of the DNC (and the country) between the Clinton and Obama families. Like Mafia dons.


39 posted on 11/05/2017 7:57:55 PM PST by huckfillary
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To: Nifster

Brazile’s vainly trying to punp herself up.

Expects people to beleve she was a DNC shaker and mover.

Baldedash.


40 posted on 11/06/2017 7:37:20 AM PST by Liz
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