What Clinton learned from Trump's GOP rivals

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http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/22/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-general-election-campaign/

And they're off and running ...

In one sign of the organizational gap between the two campaigns, the Clinton campaign says it has put in place 50 state directors who will stay through the election -- while Trump struggles to stand up a much more limited campaign infrastructure.

One reason Trump may be finding the general election season tougher is that -- unlike Clinton -- he doesn't have a roster of supporters with the political stature to seize the media oxygen. In the Trump campaign, the candidate is the star.

But on the Democratic side, Clinton has powerful allies. Obama grabbed at a chance to excoriate Trump over his response to the Orlando terror attack, portraying him as un-American and upbraiding him for "loose talk and sloppiness."

Clinton's own subsequent critique of Trump's hawkish reaction to the gun rampage at an LGBT nightclub was clearly coordinated with the White House. Biden followed up in a speech saying Trump would lead America in the world with the "insecurity of a bully."

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1. Trump is damaged goods and falling fast. How do you come back from below 40%? You don't.