I'm not a Hillary fan, but what are Trump's obvious weaknesses we could exploit to beat him?

[yurbud]

The fact that he knows nothing and is a racist bully will not hurt him with Republicans at all.

Hillary's "what about the children" ad and using Trump's anti-women comments were great though again, won't shake his base.

What might is something like his "You're fired!" tag line with some blue collar guy sitting on his couch or at a bar watching Trump on THE APPRENTICE and turn to his wife or drinking buddy and say he was actually fired or cheated out of wages or best yet, replaced with undocumented workers by Trump.

NOTE: after I wrote the above paragraph, I saw that Kaine said, "Do you want to vote for the guy who said, 'You're fired!' or the guy who said, 'You're hired'?"


Also, he sells himself as a self-made man, but got a HUUUGE loan from his dad to start out.

It would also be worth doing something with his bankruptcies: while Donald was taking his Republicans in Congress were making it harder for consumers and impossible for student loan borrowers. (This one might play more to swing voters than the GOP base).

[Doodley]

1. His connections and his devotion to Putin is the thing that could destroy him

[think]

2. He was the leader of the birther racism against Obama.

[yurbud]

10. that's a good one

[emulatorloo]

12. Yes, to me he has Zero credibility because of his birtherism

[Cooley Hurd]

3. I think the best thing to battle King Cheeto with is use his self-adornment of gold...

...and his sickening self-branding of everything with his name. He is, by every metric, a megalomaniac and an all-out lunatic.

[yurbud]

5. that will help with sane swing voters. Make him the Kim Jung Un of the GOP

[giftedgirl77]

4. Why lead with I'm not a Hillary fan?

She's the presumptive democratic presidential nominee, you're on a democratic site....

[yurbud]

8. "presumptive"

[giftedgirl77]

11. I put that....

Still didn't answer my question.

[yurbud]

20. to get Bernie fans to participate and know that I wasn't going to bash them

[kestrel91316]

6. The fact that he's owned by the Russian Mafia?

[lillypaddle]

7. Was it really necessary for the point of this thread

to begin with "I'm not a Hillary fan?" SMDH

[emulatorloo]

9. We're not going to reach his crazy base. We need to reach mainstream GE voters

He cannot win with his only his crazy base. There aren't enough votes from them to win.

To me, the "what about the children" ad is good for reaching sane GE voters. Gotta be a lot more than that, but a decent start.

[JI7]

23. yup. That ad isn't aimed at his supporters but everyone else

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. He doesn't pay his bills. Nobody likes to do a job and not get paid.

He is currently polling around 40%. The goal is to to ensure that floor is his ceiling.


Oh, the crazy card should work too...

[Freddie]

14. Yes this

He's all about "the working person" but when he actually hired working people he stiffed them!

[VOX]

15. Why the need to open with "I'm not a Hillary fan"?

Anything you write after that statement is of zero interest. She *will be* the Democratic candidate for president.

[tinrobot]

16. Clinton/Kaine has already used the "You're Fired" meme against him

Trump says "You're Fired"

Clinton says "You're Hired"

[yurbud]

21. I saw that--excellent.

[FigTree]

17. Ad hominem

He is a text-book, full-blown hysteric man and should be called this way.

[Expecting Rain]

18. Trump Cheating Workers and Contractors out of Fair Earnings...

...is one of the issues that in my estimation would hurt him with white blue-collar males in ways that some issues dear to us as liberals won't.

His unprincipled history as a con-man is his greatest weakness with more conservative types. Hammering away as his dirty dealings, especially his refusal to pay people for work done well will (in conjunction with frauds like Trump "University," frauds like Ocean Resorts in Baja, Mexico, the bankruptcies, the mob-connections, et al, are the points of vulnerability for those inclined to like Trump's message otherwise.

[tallahasseedem]

19. You start with a divisive statement and then say "we"?

Ironic.

[JI7]

22. It's a waste of time. her goal is to get others out to vote for her.

[Darb]

24. Uhhhh, he's indebted to Putin's cronies to the tune of billions?

After that one we don't need any others.