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HarmonyRockets

(397 posts)
Fri Aug 4, 2017, 08:37 PM Aug 2017

Mark Zuckerberg has hired Hillary Clinton's Chief Strategist

Looks like he has hired David Plouffe (Obama's 2008 campaign manager) and Tim Kaine's communication director as well. I wonder how many Democrats are actually going to support this guy's run?

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/08/zuckerberg-hires-clintons-chief-strategist

"For someone who claims to not be running for president, Facebook founder and C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg has a strange way of showing it. For much of the past year, he’s been touring the United States on a cross-country road trip (really, a cross-country private plane trip) that has taken him to red-state touchstones like the Fort Worth Stock Show and an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as a detour to Alaska, where Zuckerberg praised the state’s universal basic income. (Zuckerberg has described these small-town photo ops as part of his New Year’s resolution to gain a “broader perspective” in the wake of a politically turbulent year at his company.) Now, Zuckerberg—who, again, has said that he is definitely not running for president—has hired Democratic pollster Joel Benenson, a chief adviser to Barack Obama, the chief strategist of Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 campaign, and a man whose official bio boasts that he is “the only Democratic pollster in history to have played a leading role in three winning presidential campaigns."

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Mark Zuckerberg has hired Hillary Clinton's Chief Strategist (Original Post) HarmonyRockets Aug 2017 OP
He's basically just a really rich brand-name celebrity. yallerdawg Aug 2017 #1
He started with nothing and was worth more than Trump in just a couple of years Not Ruth Aug 2017 #6
if he runs democratic DonCoquixote Aug 2017 #2
Oh, Jesus. Are we never again going to have a professional in that office again? Squinch Aug 2017 #3
Is he old enough? marlakay Aug 2017 #4
He is 33. former9thward Aug 2017 #5
I have said inthe past let who ever wants to run... run for office . This guy ..... NO Kathy M Aug 2017 #7
Hire Claude Taylor! Not Ruth Aug 2017 #8
I'm not a big fan of Benenson Renew Deal Aug 2017 #9
BTW, Zuckerberg might not run as a Democrat Renew Deal Aug 2017 #10

Kathy M

(1,242 posts)
7. I have said inthe past let who ever wants to run... run for office . This guy ..... NO
Fri Aug 4, 2017, 10:36 PM
Aug 2017

Your party will lose more voters ....

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