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What Hillary's doing while Bernie makes a vain grab for the remaining primary votes
Last edited Wed May 4, 2016, 10:25 AM - Edit history (1)
Clinton plots swing-state ambush for TrumpShe's already organizing a shadow general election campaign.
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. She’s 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 campaign’s field organizing infrastructure...
...in recent days the campaign has tapped state directors in a series of swing states, according to local Democrats: Brian Zuzenak, the director of Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s PAC, in Virginia; Troy Clair, chief of staff to Rep. G.K. Butterfield, in North Carolina; and Chris Wyant, Barack Obama’s 2012 Ohio director, in that state.
In addition, Clinton’s campaign has hired Meg Ansara, a former regional director for Obama working in the Midwest and the South, to work with Marlon Marshall, a top political staffer, on the battleground state team in Brooklyn.
These moves come alongside four more state director hires announced in recent days in the key swing states of New Hampshire, Colorado, Nevada and Florida.
After months of keeping top surrogates and supporters abreast of the campaign’s progress with periodic conference calls, the campaign has now been setting up its new state directors with local political leaders as they start formally organizing — Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper told POLITICO that he met with new Colorado director Emmy Ruiz on Saturday, one day after her name was publicly announced...
The Clintons make private political stops with party officials and influencers on these trips, note local Democrats, who say that’s in addition to regular phone calls between top political staffers in Brooklyn and state party operatives to discuss their field organizing and financial operations.
Those moves fit with the campaign’s intention to rely heavily on coordinated campaigns with the state parties, a plan first mapped out by Marshall to local leaders at the DNC’s summer meeting in Minneapolis in August.
Some state operations — particularly those in states where a Senate seat is up for grabs, such as Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin – have already built up large teams, even before they are further expanded with campaign staffers moved over from primary states.
read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/hillary-clinton-swing-states-trump-222772
Dan Merica ?@danmericaCNN 1h1 hour ago
Clinton has already hired senior general election aides in CO, NV, NH, PA, OH, FL & VA. http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/04/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-2016/index.html …
Gabriel Debenedetti ?@gdebenedetti 1h1 hour ago
CNN/ORC national poll shows Clinton up 13 on Trump. (http://cnn.it/1ZcfSfq) On 5/4/12, Obama led Romney by 3.3 according to RCP average.
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Good strategic moves. 
