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If you haven’t had the chance, check out the daily News & Views and the Hillary Writers Circle, as well as the afternoon Hillary Hangouts and the #ImWithHer evening open threads. In addition, here are some new diaries:
Rickon Snow: With Her: Hillary Clinton First Campaign Podcast (Updated)
Jeremy Warneke: Hillary Clinton Got Me The G.I. Bill
FiveOfSix: Part 2: Under the bus? Not anymore! A #HillPeep unity t-shirt planning diary… #StrongerTogether
Skibird: Reason #14/100 why we all should vote for Hillary
ericlewis0: If Hillary Had ONLY the States in which She’s Polling at +10% or More, She Would Win
Since our regular News & Views isn’t available, I’ll provide some:
Here is a fairly good article with a terrible title: “Clinton, queen of polls”:
Battleground states currently missing the battle
A slew of new polling from key battleground states was released this week and almost all of it favored Clinton. Battleground states are usually called that because, well, candidates have to battle for them. But these polls show that if the election were held today it wouldn’t be much of a fight. On Friday a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll had Clinton ahead by 14% in Colorado, 13% in Virginia, 9% in North Carolina and 5% in Florida (though aQuinnipiac poll earlier in the week had her and Trump virtually tied.) She also was ahead in Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania too based on other polls released earlier in the week. And a national poll out Monday had her 12 points ahead of Trump.
While the Clinton staff at least had some champagne last night at the bar, they shouldn’t get too cozy yet. We’re still three months out and the primary season proved that Trump has an impressive ability to surprise everyone and beat his competitors (friendly reminder that he beat 16 people — some of whom were or had been governors and senators — to be the Republican nominee.)
Over at Washington Monthly, Nancy LeTourneau notes that just because Hillary is encouraging Republicans to cross over doesn’t mean she’s making any policy concessions:
* I’ve read some rumblings about Clinton reaching out to Republicans along with questions about what she might give in return for their support. According to Alex Seitz-Wald, in her speech about economics this week, Clinton answered that question with, “You get nothing.”
“What economic policy concessions might Hillary Clinton offer up to woo Republicans? If her speech Thursday in Warren, Michigan is any indication, the answer is: Nothing.
“In her first major economic address since her campaign began actively courting the Republicans turned off by Donald Trump, Clinton made no major pivot to the ideological center.
“Instead, Clinton reiterated several of the policy positions she adopted during her primary fight against Bernie Sanders, even while making a direct appeal to Independent voters and Republicans…”
Then Hillary and Tim really got under Donald’s skin by releasing yet more tax returns, putting pressure on him to do so.
In other news, Chelsea Clinton praises Simone Biles for, rightly, not giving in to the frame that she has to compare herself to a male athlete.
If you haven’t, be sure to check out Hillary’s new podcast, diaried above.
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