Clinton goes negative with Trump

[DonViejo]

Hillary Clinton is keeping a negative focus on Donald Trump in her campaign ads, which rarely focus on positive reasons why voters should back her campaign for the White House. The ads illuminate Clinton’s strategy: Portray Trump as unfit to be commander-in-chief and glide to victory this fall.

Opinion polls suggest the effort is working, and Trump’s latest controversial remarks about “Second Amendment people”thwarting Clinton are unlikely to cause anyone on the Democrat’s campaign to suggest a new course.
Polls at present show her leading by a substantial margin nationally and across most battlegrounds, while even states that are usually GOP strongholds, such as Utah and Georgia, could be in play.

“Her job right now is to beat the devil out of Trump while his negatives are up, to ensure those negatives remain in place even if he stages some kind of resurgence later,” said Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic strategist in New York who has worked for Clinton in the past but has not done so during this campaign.

“He does stupid things, she does stupid things, it doesn’t matter — just keep hitting him in the head,” Sheinkopf added. “The minute she lets Trump up, it will be a very bad day.”

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http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/291001-clinton-goes-negative-with-trump

[lillypaddle]

1. I like the "just keep hitting him in the head"

part.

[Squinch]

2. "She does stupid things"? He should name one stupid thing she has done in this campaign.

[Curtland1015]

4. Right? I don't know how anyone can push "they're both doing bad!"

Hillary hasn't done anything close to the LEAST stupid thing Trump has done.

[Squinch]

5. She has run a flawless campaign. So many out there and in here can't acknowledge that.

It's very, very telling.

[lame54]

8. Are you saying since the convention?

[Squinch]

9. Did you want to re-fight the primary? No, I'm not.

[lame54]

13. Then you're wrong...

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Many flaws before the convention

[Squinch]

14. So you DO want to refight the primary. But no. I'm not wrong.

[lame54]

15. No...

Not sure why you couldn't answer the question and provide clarity

[Squinch]

17. I clearly answered the question. I will again: No. I am not talking about since the convention.

And you responded to my answer, so why are you saying that I didn't answer the question?

[lame54]

19. i misunderstood what you were saying...

i thought you were answering your own question - not mine

[spooky3]

18. The Hill always seems to get in shots against Dems.

Doesn't research show that negative ads do work? And he's helping by creating his own negatives.

[INdemo]

3. If Utah goes for Clinton and then the Republican stonghold Mississippi,

two states that bleed Red through to China,then we could be looking at a 50 state + PR,VI and Guam,historic landslide...

[beachbumbob]

6. It's one of many strategies...and it's a good one as trump keeps proving

Everyday how unfit he is. I would be disappointed if Hillary did not spend some time on the question.

[bettyellen]

7. Even late in the primaries polling was showing most voters knew very little about Trump....

So this is the strategy she needs to go with till he is better known. That he is helping her out by shooting his mouth off is a bonus

[Squinch]

10. I love how they've coordinated it so every couple of days Liz Warren pokes Donald with a

stick and he rises to the bait like clockwork and dominates the news with his stupidity for the next few days.

[tanyev]

11. Except she's not really 'going negative'. She's highlighting things he's actually said and done.

[Squinch]

12. Yes. "Repeats his words" constitutes "going negative" to the press when Hillary does it.

[DemonGoddess]

16. She doesn't have to go negative

and isn't. She just uses his own words AGAINST him. He's the one saying all these horrifying things.