If you thought Donald Trump’s presidential campaign had been ugly so far, brace yourself. It’s reportedly going to get even worse:
Mr. Trump, in fact, is trying to use his break with many party leaders as a lever to ramp up support among his base, which includes many voters who feel equally estranged from the party establishment.
The decision means that a campaign already marked by intensely personal attacks is primed to grow even uglier in the remaining four weeks. Mr. Trump plans to keep up a relentless assault on Mrs. Clinton, including her use of a private email server and allegations about her husband, former President Bill Clinton, with the intention of keeping some of her supporters home on Election Day, his advisers said.
Michelle Obama set one of the refrains of this election in her Democratic National Convention speech: “When they go low, we go high.” Trump is apparently hoping to turn it into “When I go low, they stay home.”
The thing is, it’s unlikely that even Donald Trump can go low enough and ugly enough to suppress the Democratic vote so much that he’ll beat Hillary Clinton. But the Senate and maybe even the House hang in the balance, and we need maximum Democratic turnout to win those and give Clinton a governing majority. That is why it’s important not to let him define this race and keep people home.
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