Republicans are running against Hillary Clinton (Again.)

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Source: NBC News




Rebecca Shabad and Alex Seitz-Wald
4 hrs ago



WASHINGTON — Republicans are running attack ads blasting Hillary Clinton as an out-of-touch elitist. Fox News prime time is blanketed with reports about Clinton investigations. Trump 2020 campaign rallies in key presidential swing states feature "lock her up!" chants.

If you follow campaign news, it may seem like the 2016 campaign never ended. And in at least one way for some Republicans, it hasn't: The GOP has gone negative on Clinton for more than 25 years — and they don't think her absence from the ballot is reason enough to stop now.

So far, at least three Republican candidates or groups have released ads over the past week slamming Clinton, in what amounts to an early midterms election-year beta test of her continued utility in firing up the conservative base.

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Some 17 months after Election Day 2016, Fox News is still devotes roughly equal time to Trump and Clinton, according to an analysis by the liberal media watchdog Media Matters — despite the fact that one is now a private citizen, and the other president of the United States.


Red-state Democrats run for cover

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[William Seger]

1. Here's your missing link

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/2018-campaign-republicans-are-running-against-hillary-clinton-again-n861261

[xor]

10. Several more missing links...

[redstateblues]

2. I voted enthusiastically for Hillary

Unfortunately she continues to give them plenty to run against. The “deplorables” thing was a huge unforced error. It pushed some of my undecided family members over the edge. They have since realized the error of their ways. The live in a deep red state so it probably didn’t matter. It was a mistake to lump all Trump voters in the same pile. It continues to be.

[jalan48]

5. +1

Name calling distracts from the issues, playing right into the Republican's hands.

[PatSeg]

6. Yet name calling seems to work so well

for Trump. Republicans can dish it out, but they lose their minds if someone calls them out.

[jalan48]

12. Do you think it helps Democrats? Other than Hillary what other Democrat is rallying the voters by

using "Deplorables"? I didn't see any mentioned in the article.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

16. piss on deplorables

How about we concentrate on the multitude of voters who were disenfranchised by Repugs dirty tricks? There are a lot more of them than those hopeless, irredeemable shit-for-brains.

[jalan48]

18. Focus on the issues, not the other voters. I like it.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

22. deplorables cannot be saved

The deplorables will never reward kind words and good deeds. They're irredeemable; that's why they're deplorable.

Meanwhile...

Minority voters, not Trump voters, are key to Dem victory. Why else is GOP suppressing their votes?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210372169

Kobach expert witness: Carlos Murguia sounds foreign. ACLU attorney: Thats a federal judge
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210350534

Judge orders Gov. Scott, Cabinet to create system to restore felons voting rights
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10456283

Pseudoscience on Trial: The Spectacular Fall of President Trumps Voter Fraud Thesis
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210403135

After being threatened with lawsuit, Texas agency will help disabled people register to vote
https://www.democraticunderground.com/107838214

[PatSeg]

19. Personally

I think Democrats should hold the high ground, while also telling the truth. I see Democrats online often getting down in the mud and fighting on the same level as the people they oppose.

I've never liked name calling. I will be very critical of Trump, but I avoid calling him anything but Trump. (I will say he is a "liar" though, as a statement of fact) I don't want to be like the right-wingers, who dish out the nastiest insults they can, rather than have a real debate or discussion.

It is easier to want to fight back, give as good as you get, but that generally gets you no where, other than sinking to their level.

[jalan48]

20. I agree. I think we can win in the midterms on the issues and an anti-Trump platform.

[JNelson6563]

7. Yes, Dems need to be VERY CAREFUL!!

Lest any fans of the PUSSY GRABBER be offended. Yeah, they all suck. Sorry.

[William Seger]

15. She said half were deplorable because they were...

"... racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it." The other half are pretty deplorable, too, because they'll vote for such a person. Saying you're not a racist because you really just don't give a shit about other people's problems, regardless of race, is a defense that only goes so far.

[Demit]

8. And it's a mistake to say that she lumped all Trump voters in the same pile.

Yet people still insist on saying that.

[Mike Nelson]

3. Oh, no...

...looks like Hillary will lose all the FOX "News" diehards who voted for her... how sad!

[OnDoutside]

26. The issue is more to get them engaged again, to get out and vote

Republican. I'd say a lot of them are pissed off with the stormy Daniels stuff etc.

[groundloop]

4. Repubs can't run on issues so they run on FEAR FEAR FEAR-and their current "boogeyman" is Hillary

Repubs have put a lot of time and effort into building up lies against Hillary so apparently they aren't about to let go of all that. They certainly can't run on real issues so they're stoking their base with more Hillary bullshit. It's all they have.

[Lil Missy]

9. Wow. She must be a very powerful force to the right, even though she's not running. n/t

[jmowreader]

13. This is why we need to run Eric Schneiderman in 2020

Of course he’d do a better job than Trump. FFS you could stick a pin in the Seattle phone book and pick a better President than Trump. “Does not need to go to federal prison” is enough of a qualification.

But in addition to being smart and hard working, Schneiderman has no problem tearing into Trump.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. ....

[paleotn]

23. bingo.

[kimbutgar]

28. Love that gif

Can I have the link?

[UCmeNdc]

17. How can they use Hillary effectively? She is not running for any office?

How can this plan to run against Hillary work?

[Wellstone ruled]

21. More proof,

Look no further than Sessions appointment of Huber from Utah to hint hint ,look at how the FBI used their Offices to further FISA Court inquiries and how that implied fake story of cover ups.

Huber has not been non partisan in Utah, he travels in the hard Right Circle of the Rethugs .

Said this last year,the Rethugs were going to rerun the 2016 campaign. If you follow any of the Local Right Wing Media,especially on their online operations,anti Hillary stories and ads are on their Page One some where.

[paleotn]

24. Sorry, Rethugs, but that dog just won't hunt.

[Vinca]

25. Hillary should mess with their heads and announce she's joining the GOP.

The reactions would be priceless.

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. Locking - the hosts feel this is analysis and opinion, rather than a breaking news story

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