2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What Bernie said in June of this year about Black Lives Matter. Did the hecklers know? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)have been longing to hear.
Their Rovian talking point was intended to attack him where he is the strongest.
You know it's a paid for talking point when no matter how often it is corrected, it persists.
THIS is going to harm Hillary, because people do not like these tactics.
And because now we all know that it is a talking point intended to derail a great candidacy, it has lost its effect.
Eg, the incident at NN has become suspect to a whole lot of people and it is being attached to Hillary's name, whether true or not.
But that is the result of negative campaigning, when you do it, sometimes there are consequences and for Hillary these are now the consequences, she has to either condemn the lies her campaign is spreading about Bernie, or she is part of it.