Keeping media focus on Trump is a deliberate Clinton strategy

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according to Politico:

"But Clinton’s criticisms of the GOP nominee were notable in their cool, clipped delivery—not dripping with animosity or the urgency of a candidate in an actual fight.

It’s a deliberate strategy. As polls show Trump trailing by significant and widening margins in every swing state, the Democratic nominee and her team are eager to keep Clinton’s head down and allow American voters to watch Trump undercut his own economic agenda by spouting incendiary comments, from his muddled suggestion Tuesday that “Second Amendment people” might be able to stop Clinton or a liberal Supreme Court to his insistence over the last 24 hours that she and President Obama are the “founders” of ISIS."

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[Onamuji]

Lemon Drop wrote:
It’s a deliberate strategy. As polls show Trump trailing by significant and widening margins in every swing state, the Democratic nominee and her team are eager to keep Clinton’s head down and allow American voters to watch Trump undercut his own economic agenda...

Well, yeah.

Whatever else HRC is, she's not an idiot.

[Pam]

I'm sure she's been reminded of the Gore Bush debates.

[Speedy]

It's also Mr. Trump's strategy - keeping the media focus on himself. It worked very well for him in the primaries.

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Speedy wrote:
It's also Mr. Trump's strategy - keeping the media focus on himself. It worked very well for him in the primaries.

particularly since all of his opponents were terrible

[graylocks]

i believe it's called the Give him enough rope approach.

[$tevie]

This election is incredible. If you had told me it would be Trump vs Clinton I would have said you were nuts. If I could just be 100% sure he can't win, it would be extremely entertaining.

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$tevie wrote:
This election is incredible. If you had told me it would be Trump vs Clinton I would have said you were nuts. If I could just be 100% sure he can't win, it would be extremely entertaining.

Yep.
I expect the Carnival Barker to lose but it won't be over 'til it's over. I do worry about the long term damage he's doing to the process and to national political leadership in general though. The people who've rallied behind his demagoguery aren't going to disappear after November, the Republicans are going to be stuck with this "White America First" gang and will have to appease them for quite a while.

[Dennis S]

You can breath a sigh of relief if Trump does lose, but we're not going to be rid of those idiots who voted for him for a long, long time. They're not through causing trouble.

[vision63]

Lemon Drop wrote:
[quote=$tevie]
This election is incredible. If you had told me it would be Trump vs Clinton I would have said you were nuts. If I could just be 100% sure he can't win, it would be extremely entertaining.

Yep.
I expect the Carnival Barker to lose but it won't be over 'til it's over. I do worry about the long term damage he's doing to the process and to national political leadership in general though. The people who've rallied behind his demagoguery aren't going to disappear after November, the Republicans are going to be stuck with this "White America First" gang and will have to appease them for quite a while.
I'm extremely confident. But I know it's a contest which means anything can happen. So I cannot rest until November 9th.