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Related: About this forumClinton plots swing state ambush for Trump She's already organizing a shadow general election camp
Politico puts a nasty twist to this article--but you can get the idea that Hillary has been busy organizing and preparing for the Gen. Election.
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Hillary Clinton looks on during a meeting on April 22, in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. | Getty
2016
Clinton plots swing state ambush for Trump
She's already organizing a shadow general election campaign.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
05/03/16 10:19 PM EDT
Donald Trump all but claimed the GOP nomination Tuesday by routing Ted Cruz in Indiana. Hillary Clinton stumbled, failing once again to finish off Bernie Sanders' longshot Democratic primary challenge.
But even in defeat, Clinton continues to execute a hard turn toward November -- and the coming war with Trump. Over the last two weeks, Clinton has been quietly accelerating her swing state operation, organizing what amounts to a shadow general election campaign at the same time she is fending off a rival who insists he'll continue to fight until the Democratic convention in July.
In recent days, the Clinton campaign has finalized a series of senior hires around the country, expanded the size of her central swing-state planning team in New York, and hundreds of thousands of dollars have been transferred to strategically important state parties from the Democratic National Committee. Shes also scheduled a series of public speeches and private meetings in states that will be crucial to her general election campaign.
Many of the moves had been in the works since early spring, when campaign officials began the process of hiring swing state operatives and more closely coordinating with state parties the building blocks of the fall campaigns field organizing infrastructure.
According to operatives and elected officials in eight battleground states, the switch flipped after Clintons 16-point win in New York last month and Trumps own romp there. In the days after that April 19 victory, some of Clintons state directors who had previously operated only informally and without the campaigns imprimatur started meeting with local political leaders and planning the fall fight.
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Cha
(296,815 posts)riversedge
(70,077 posts)Hi.
And a tweet about this article.
Nate Cohn Retweeted
Gabriel Debenedetti ?@gdebenedetti 9h9 hours ago
Clinton swing state directors already holding meetings. FL Ds have 50 staff in the field. OH Ds 60. CO Dems 60.
still_one
(92,061 posts)Kaleva
(36,248 posts)StayFrosty
(237 posts)She will be our nominee
ladym55
(2,577 posts)The ground game in swing states needs to get into gear earlier rather than later.
Jitter65
(3,089 posts)riversedge
(70,077 posts)the rest of the speech. And of course the media and RW--and Sanders fans fan the fuel.
Tarc
(10,472 posts)Every stump speech form here on out will begin with "we thank Sanders and his enthusiastic supporters for a great race", and that will be the first, last, and only time" she name-drops him the rest of the day.
Sanders fans remind me of the guy with the high school crush for the girl that's already left for college.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)She's doing exactly what she needs to do; basically ignoring Bernie and acting like the nominee. Trump is used to the likes of Cruz and Kasich; he won't know what hit him when Hillary trains her eyes on him.
Hekate
(90,551 posts)Her Sister
(6,444 posts)SHE'S GOT THIS!
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