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Segami

(14,923 posts)
Wed May 11, 2016, 11:11 AM May 2016

Michael Moore POKES at Hillary Clinton's Potential WEAKNESSES Against Trump





There are some who believe Hillary Clinton has the presidency in the bag. Don't count Michael Moore on that list -- he sees a path to victory for Trump.

"I know that they [the Trump campaign] are planning to focus on Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. That’s how he can win the election. If he can get those upper kind of Midwestern-type states, then he can pull it off," filmmaker Michael Moore told MSNBC's Chris Hayes.

Hillary Clinton won Pennsylvania and Ohio, but lost Wisconsin and Michigan to Bernie Sanders. Moore interviewed the Michigan militia while writing the book Downsize This! in 1996 and had an epiphany about the left consoling the right who felt they got “left behind.”

“I said publicly last August that I thought [Trump] would be the Republican nominee, and that was laughed at. I ... think people are ... no longer laughing at the possibility of what could happen. ... How bad could it be, really, if Trump gets in? ... I would say pretty bad. ... Our side of the political fence oftentimes does not come out to vote and therefore, the other side, they're very good [at voter turnout]. I think that should be a real concern,” he told Hayes.



http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/michael-moore-predicts-trump-can-win-election-focusing-middle-america-especially

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Michael Moore POKES at Hillary Clinton's Potential WEAKNESSES Against Trump (Original Post) Segami May 2016 OP
Hillary will LOSE against Trump in the GE..... Segami May 2016 #1
Yep, she will. Punkingal May 2016 #2
yep... it did not have to be this way yourpaljoey May 2016 #3
Yea if only we had given the Democratic nomination to the second place finisher....n/t asuhornets May 2016 #9
You wish KingFlorez May 2016 #4
Same naive talking points that has been floating around Segami May 2016 #7
Trump's Republican opponents were weaklings who never saw him coming KingFlorez May 2016 #8
Don't try distorting one's opinion Segami May 2016 #10
It was her turn farleftlib May 2016 #6
Moores mistake is the same as BS's and most of the dem establishment; there arent enough angry white uponit7771 May 2016 #5

KingFlorez

(12,689 posts)
4. You wish
Wed May 11, 2016, 11:25 AM
May 2016

Trump is insane and Hillary Clinton will wipe the floor with his racist ass. End of story.

 

Segami

(14,923 posts)
7. Same naive talking points that has been floating around
Wed May 11, 2016, 11:30 AM
May 2016

since Trump entered the race....

Trump creamed 17 of his opponents including the Bush machine.....Hillary is still losing to Bernie and hasn't sealed the deal.



Go figure what is coming down the pipe when the republicans release their oppo-research Kraken.


KingFlorez

(12,689 posts)
8. Trump's Republican opponents were weaklings who never saw him coming
Wed May 11, 2016, 11:34 AM
May 2016

The same cannot be said of Clinton. Clinton has already secured the nomination, so that race is done.

Be careful, it almost sounds like you want Trump to win.

 

Segami

(14,923 posts)
10. Don't try distorting one's opinion
Wed May 11, 2016, 11:40 AM
May 2016

....Your 'almost sounds like you want Trump to win' line is an old tactic insult best left in your fool box.


uponit7771

(93,532 posts)
5. Moores mistake is the same as BS's and most of the dem establishment; there arent enough angry white
Wed May 11, 2016, 11:28 AM
May 2016

... people for the Trumps to win on a national level any longer no matter how you look at it.

Trump is NOT going to pull over the same demos Obama won with, his are already worse right now and even if they go up 10% he still loses.

Go after women, blacks, browns and moderate to progressive white males and you win.

The national base includes blacks and browns and women, the "older" thinking is these can be pandered to vs catered to...

Nope

Power shift has begun and the temper tantrums will end soon

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