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kstewart33

(6,551 posts)
Sat Oct 29, 2016, 02:21 PM Oct 2016

New Clinton strategy: Steady as she goes and criticize Comey.

New York Times:

Mrs. Clinton’s advisers said they were not changing any political strategy, television advertising or campaign travel plans to try to contain the potential damage of the new F.B.I. inquiry into emails that belonged to Mrs. Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin.

Mrs. Clinton made no rash moves overnight or on Saturday, advisers said, making clear that she wanted the campaign to operate normally while putting pressure on the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to provide more details about the inquiry to dispel any possibility that her candidacy was under legal threat.

In conference calls, email chains and overnight text messages, Clinton aides provided talking points for allies to convey a coordinated message that the campaign was confident that the F.B.I. would find nothing to hurt Mrs. Clinton in the new inquiry. According to several party officials, donors and campaign surrogates appearing on television, the greater concern is that an election that seemed like Mrs. Clinton’s to lose will now be thrown into doubt, depressing some of her supporters while rallying Republicans around down-ballot candidates and even their battered presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump.

In a conference call with campaign surrogates on Friday night, a rare gathering at the start of a weekend, Clinton advisers asked them to push a coordinated message in news media interviews and with voters: that the F.B.I. investigation had not been reopened; that none of the new emails had emerged from Mrs. Clinton; that the F.B.I. had to release more details about its inquiry; and that they were concerned that Mr. Comey had taken this action.


Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/us/politics/hillary-clinton-emails-fbi-anthony-weiner.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-ab-top-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
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New Clinton strategy: Steady as she goes and criticize Comey. (Original Post) kstewart33 Oct 2016 OP
Whay else can she do? iemitsu Oct 2016 #1
Yep semby2 Oct 2016 #2
When they go low, Hillary goes high Mr. Ected Oct 2016 #3
Good for her budkin Oct 2016 #4
Well vadermike Oct 2016 #5
Stop "concerning" and go campaign. Anything else is a silly waste of time and energy. RBInMaine Oct 2016 #9
That's my POTUS elect! Lucinda Oct 2016 #6
The surrogates should criticize Comey Blue Idaho Oct 2016 #7
well said recovering_democrat Oct 2016 #8

iemitsu

(3,888 posts)
1. Whay else can she do?
Sat Oct 29, 2016, 02:26 PM
Oct 2016

Sounds like a good way forward to me.
I sure hope it works and that voters are not swayed by the lies and innuendo promoted by the press.

 

semby2

(246 posts)
2. Yep
Sat Oct 29, 2016, 02:26 PM
Oct 2016
depressing some of her supporters while rallying Republicans around down-ballot candidates and even their battered presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump.

Exactly what I've been saying. This is Comey's goal. We'll see what the data says.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
3. When they go low, Hillary goes high
Sat Oct 29, 2016, 02:30 PM
Oct 2016

These latest "revelations" are total trash and discerning minds know that already. In truth, this is just more red meat for voters inclined to vote for Trump anyway. The echo chamber reverberates with white noise that the tone-deaf Trumpites confuse with chamber music.

Hillary, as always, has handled this gracefully, forcefully...and presidentially.

vadermike

(1,415 posts)
5. Well
Sat Oct 29, 2016, 02:32 PM
Oct 2016

I hope I think this probably won't cause trump to win but down ballot I would be worried In fact maybe it's best that early voting has started We should win but carter was way ahead in 76 and almost lost It could get close

Blue Idaho

(5,049 posts)
7. The surrogates should criticize Comey
Sat Oct 29, 2016, 02:33 PM
Oct 2016

She should attack Trump. Not only is Comey beneath her, he's just a diversion. The real threat to America is that Putin loving, Chinese steel buying, lech Trump.

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