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Joey Wahoo

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Report that Bill disagreed with HRC strategy and where the blame lays


Interesting story (below) if true. I read elsewhere that in the closing days of the campaign the HRC team discovered from their polling that Michigan was getting close. So they poured millions of dollars into ads there in the last few days. But they stayed with the strategy of attacking Trump's character and personality. The ads they ran were the ones of kids watching him say mean things on TV and the like. They didn't address the economic concerns of the people at all. The post-mortem was that they were tone deaf and convinced that they would win just by highlighting Trump's character flaws.

Here's the piece from the Daily Mail (so do consider the source):

In the waning days of the presidential campaign, Bill and Hillary Clinton had a knock-down, drag-out fight about her effort to blame FBI Director James Comey for her slump in the polls and looming danger of defeat.

'I was with Bill in Little Rock when he had this shouting match with Hillary on the phone and she accused Comey for reviving the investigation into her use of a private email server and reversing her campaign's momentum,' said one of Bill Clinton's closest advisers.

'Bill didn't buy the excuse that Comey would cost Hillary the election,' said the source. 'As far as he was concerned, all the blame belonged to [campaign manager Robby] Mook, [campaign chairman John] Podesta and Hillary because they displayed a tone-deaf attitude about the feeble economy and its impact on millions and millions of working-class voters.

'Bill was so red in the face during his conversation with Hillary that I worried he was going to have a heart attack. He got so angry that he threw his phone off the roof of his penthouse apartment and toward the Arkansas River.'

During the campaign, Bill Clinton felt that he was ignored by Hillary's top advisers when he urged them to make the economy the centerpiece of her campaign.

He repeatedly urged them to connect with the people who had been left behind by the revolutions in technology and globalization.
'Bill said that constantly attacking Trump for his defects made Hillary's staff and the media happy, but that it wasn't a message that resonated with voters, especially in the rust belt,' the source explained.

'Bill always campaigned as a guy who felt your pain, but Hillary came across as someone who was pissed off at her enemy [Trump], not someone who was reaching out and trying to make life better for the white working class.'

According to the source, Bill was severely critical of Hillary's decision to reject an invitation to address a St. Patrick's Day event at the University of Notre Dame.

Hillary's campaign advisers nixed the idea on the grounds that white Catholics were not the audience she needed to reach.




Posted: 11/16/2016 at 07:22AM



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