How Hillary Clinton's team is putting together a playbook against Donald Trump

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The strategy has already been taking shape on the campaign trail, with Clinton herself questioning Trump’s temperament, asking voters to envision him calling the shots in sensitive diplomatic negotiations or in the White House situation room during the operation that took out Osama bin Laden. Mobilization efforts are underway to tap Trump’s anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim tirades to re-energize the diverse coalition of voters that propelled Obama’s victories.

"We have been saying he is going to self-destruct since last September, and he hasn’t done that despite his best efforts,” said Ed Rendell, a former chair of the Democratic National Committee. “He is just a difficult person to run against.” Such uneasiness motivated two longtime Clinton confidants, pollster Stan Greenberg and strategist James Carville, to take a deep dive into the zeitgeist fueling Trump’s rise. The poll findings they released last week suggested the Republican electorate has unprecedented anger with the opposition party, with nearly 90% feeling its policies are so misguided that they threaten the nation’s well-being. Distaste for Clinton runs even deeper than it does for Obama, the poll found.

But it also revealed deep anxieties about Trump, with one in five Republican voters saying they would not be able to bring themselves to cast a ballot for him in a general election. The poll also made clear Trump’s weaknesses: There was considerable worry even among Republicans about Trump having control of the nation’s nuclear weapons, about his attitude toward women and about his perceived egomania.

The Clinton machine is girding to exploit all that.
The attacks will be lobbed at Trump by all manner of surrogates, likely including Bill Clinton, who Trump has already announced can expect to have his own baggage with women and personal finances dragged back into public view.
EMILY’s list, the powerful super PAC focused on electing women, is taking aim at all the things Trump has said or done that might repulse women voters.


http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-clinton-trump-20160302-story.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link

[stonecutter357]

1. K&R!

[Thinkingabout]

2. EVER ONWARD!! We have a campaign to run.

[Rose Siding]

3. So cute that they still call it Trump's "perceived egomania"

I read an in-depth piece, maybe NYT, sourced by Trump's long time butler. At Trump's decadent home/club, when he walks through a room the butler announces it with "please rise". All the acolytes stand until the master passes. -At a club where they payed to belong, so that's a whole different psychological issue.

Who would willingly cede power of anything to such a person?

[Loki]

4. I know that the Republican's have always counted on their

very consistent voting block to get out for their elections. Democrats are like a herd of wild cats, so we are very unpredictable. But even in our very wide range of acquaintances and friends, many of them are what I call the "sane" republican, cannot and will not vote for a Trump or Cruz nominee. It's been expressed in so many different ways, and my husband and I have lost count. They will lose half of their "base" if this happens, or the rest will stay home. I never seen anything like this before. They absolutely won't vote for Bernie, Trump or Cruz, they are people who care about this country and will vote for her even if they don't like her. I don't care, they are not willing to put this country at risk, their lives actually depend on it now.

[Gothmog]

5. Trump is not suited to be POTUS