Clinton plots swing state ambush for Trump She's already organizing a shadow general election camp [View all]

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Politico puts a nasty twist to this article--but you can get the idea that Hillary has been busy organizing and preparing for the Gen. Election.



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Hillary Clinton looks on during a meeting on April 22, in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. | Getty

2016
Clinton plots swing state ambush for Trump

She's already organizing a shadow general election campaign.

By Gabriel Debenedetti

05/03/16 10:19 PM EDT


Donald Trump all but claimed the GOP nomination Tuesday by routing Ted Cruz in Indiana. Hillary Clinton stumbled, failing once again to finish off Bernie Sanders' longshot Democratic primary challenge.

But even in defeat, 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.

According to operatives and elected officials in eight battleground states, the switch flipped after Clinton’s 16-point win in New York last month — and Trump’s own romp there. In the days after that April 19 victory, some of Clinton’s state directors — who had previously operated only informally and without the campaign’s imprimatur — started meeting with local political leaders and planning the fall fight.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/hillary-clinton-swing-states-trump-222772#ixzz47eNGmbHi

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