2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhere are the "Hardcore" Democratic Party surrogates for Hillary on TV?
Why is it always some screaming Trump supporter on my TV screen? I want a screaming Hillary supporter there. A screaming Hillary supporter that has their facts right. A Hillary supporter that knows how to stand their ground. Where are these people?
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)at least none of the "hardcore, screaming" type.
Howard Dean holds his own, though like most liberals, he's not rude enough to fit your description well.
stopbush
(24,396 posts)They all got suckered into thinking they could out-bully the bully.
Hillary is smarter than that. You may not want to believe it, but you are witnessing a strategy that is working. Hillary is acting like a NORMAL presidential candidate. They worst thing she and her surrogates could do is fight Trump tactics with Trump tactics. It would play right into the media's false equivalency meme.
She is presenting a considered and consistent vision for the country. Sure, the media is lazy and stupid, and that's the last thing they want to cover. But she is wise to stay with it, because in the end, substance will beat stupidity.
aikoaiko
(34,169 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)Is that we know the media will cover tRump if he has experiences flatulence
But seriously, the media will go on covering tRump like the sideshow freak that he IS, and continue on with obsessing on the emails, CGI, then onto something else--rinse and repeat. Meanwhile, tRump has no intention of releasing his taxes, no intention of stopping his racial insults of Mexicans, plus " they" really want this presidential race to turn into a horse race for ratings and for $$$$, so we KNOW we're going to of course be seeing MORE of tRump and of his flaky surrogates on television unfortunately.
Meanwhile, and although I try to limit my television watching because there's no fairness in the media, the Clinton surrogates I've seen on television (Minus Dr. Dean, Lani Davis, Donna Brazile--can't count Joy because she's a "pundit," but she does a great job keeping things real and FAIR), are usually 'nice' people who don't make their cases FOR Hillary strong enough (Jamal Simmons who I'll probably stop watching when I see him). NOW is not the time to be polite and allow tRumps clowns to talk all over you. Not that they have to be rude, but speak UP for heaven's sake, and challenge those flat out LIES that are told by ALL of tRump's surrogates. Hillary has not been laying low--she's been out fund raising which is necessary and of course, she's just released released a Mental Health plan which is meeting so far with a LOT of positiveness (Except from righties of course) and she made that very strong appearance in Cincinnati before the American Legion and she's also been in various other places with VP Joe, and with her VP Tim Kaine, and come Labor Day she's going to REALLY ramp up her schedule. HOW she finds the energy, I've no clue!!! I'm just hoping that somehow Hillary can break through the media's obsession with the Orange Cheeto and his racist, dumb, ignorant, grand-standing flip-flopping screeching. The media is so in love with him lately to the point where some are now crowing about how much he's improved and I've seen NOTHING of the sort. To me he's still the same old same old. I'm HOPING that he stepped in it with that hideous, grotesque, racist, ignorant speech in which he was revving up his racist, hateful 'neck' voters to a fever pitch, proceeded by that waste of time little trip he made to Mexico which was generally panned in which he went to see someone who is as disliked in the polls as he is, and where he got NO concessions from the Pres. of Mexico who said Mexico's not building ANY wall along the Mexican border.
We'll see
brooklynite
(94,520 posts)book_worm
(15,951 posts)wishstar
(5,269 posts)I rarely watch CNN or MSNBC but a couple days ago a friend had TV on in late afternoon and we caught a interview where Bob Casey defended Clinton well and didn't let the interviewer steer the questions negatively against her but instead turned the tables ignoring the interviewer's interruptions to lambast Trump and ask all the important questions about Trump's tax returns, shady business deals, millions he owes overseas investors, etc etc. Beautiful to see how Casey hijacked the interview to rightfully focus on Trump's weaknesses.