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Hillary Clintons campaign aides are aggressively pushing back against a newly released book that portrays their operation as a dysfunctional knife-fest, insisting that, despite its flaws, the campaign was focused and supportive throughout the hard-fought election.
Shattered: Inside Hillary Clintons Doomed Campaign hit shelves on Tuesday and presents an unflinching autopsy on Clintons latest failed White House bid. The authors political reporters Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes write about Clinton confidants angling to get campaign manager Robby Mook fired and longtime aide Huma Abedin unhelpfully targeting people who offered constructive criticism.
But Clintons top aides say the campaign comprised a group of people who, like their slogan said, were Stronger Together even as they endured a long slog that ended in defeat.
[T]he overarching narrative paints a picture of a campaign bogged down by infighting which as a result is paralyzed, leading to its own eventual demise, Clinton deputy communications director Christina Reynolds wrote in a Medium post on Wednesday. I wanted to speak out because after spending most of the campaign watching some people question the enthusiasm and our supporters, its hard to read a depiction of the campaign that paints a dedicated, cohesive team as mercenaries with questionable motives who lacked a loyalty to a candidate described as imperial and removed from the campaign. Thats just not the campaign, the staff or the candidate I was in the trenches with for 18 months.
Read More: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/20/clinton-aides-shattered-book-denials-237404
Billy Jingo
(77 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,953 posts)...is a fun word. I recall "infighting" among groups that was positive... you have to have some clashing. I suppose the "nobody can say no" to Trump is a sign of no infighting? Hillary was not elected, I know and accept, but she did win.
emulatorloo
(44,116 posts)Squinch
(50,949 posts)WellDarn
(255 posts)On Obama calling Clinton's handling of the email controversy "political suicide?"
Someone needs to check out the authors. There's an agenda here. Resolving differences of opinion is not chaos, it is reasoning.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)Facts weren't a big concern for them.
Of course, that is pretty much the story of the whole election.