First, I supported Hillary in both the 2016 primary and general. I think she would have made a GREAT president. The problem is she is a TERRIBLE campaigner. And she listens to all of the wrong people.
Case in point. Philippe Reines
Philippe Reines has been a spokesman and adviser to Hillary Clinton since 2002, including during the 2016 campaign.
The one big reason Clinton lost is that she listened to idiots like this one. Here’s just a quick sampling of his idiocy.
Don’t think you can spend as little as he did. The impact of political ads is waning — but don’t be the first to experiment with ceding the airwaves. The Republican National Committee and his PACs won’t.
Almost every ad Clinton ran was actually an ad FOR Trump! What normal people (and the Clinton campaign) thought were Trump’s weaknesses, were for his base, his strengths. He was a bigot, they LIKED bigots! He made fun of the handicapped, his base thinks that’s high comedy!
Take a page out of Conor Lamb’s campaign, tell people what YOU are going to do. Everyone KNOWS what Trump is, that’s what his supporters want in a leader! Don’t advertise FOR HIM!
Deride Clinton at your peril. Nearly 17 million people voted for her in the primaries — 4 million more than the runner-up.
Why in the name of all that’s holy is Clinton even going to come up in the 2020 campaign? And if she does, you simply say, “I’m not living in 2016 Donald, why are you? Is it because that’s before you made a mess of everything?”
This clown, Philippe Reines is trying to dig himself out of the disaster that he helped create. You want to know why Clinton lost the race?
It’s real simple.
I live in Western PA (you know the place where Conor Lamb just beat “Trump before Trump was Trump”). I approached the Clinton campaign in MARCH of 2016 to volunteer. I emailed, I called, I got NO RESPONSE until SEPTEMBER!
Her campaign basically did NOTHING in Western PA all spring and summer! Rather than spend money on the grass roots and get people involved and INVESTED in her campaign on a LOCAL level and let those people work their asses off for her (just like Lamb did), Clinton listened to fools and spent her resources buying ads to “define” Trump.
His voters LIKED the asshole they saw. Congratulations Hil, you just spent MILLIONS of dollars on pro-Trump ads!
My God, is this Philippe Reines guy clueless!
Rant over!
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