The More Trump Messes up, the More Votes Clinton Gets
by Barbara Trish AUGUST 18, 2016, 2:56 PM EDT
This election year has repeatedly broken the mold, and while cross-party support has precedent, its volume this year is extraordinary. Just look at Hillary Clinton. She approaches the fall with an impressive collection of Republican allies—candidates, elected officials, and opinion leaders—who have landed in her corner.
Until this summer, Republicans who objected to Donald Trump clung to the hope that his nomination would be thwarted, keeping the disavowals at bay. Now, the environment is different. The seal is broken, with a critical mass of prominent Republicans having spoken out against the nominee, while polling evidence mounts that the ticket is floundering. Clinton leads Trump by an average of 6 percentage points in the 10 most recent post-convention polls.
Some arrive to Clinton’s side only through binary logic, positing that failure to support Trump is the same as supporting Clinton. George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush’s silence puts them in this camp, along with others voicing a deliberate “no.” To name a few: former senior advisor and deputy chief of staff during the George W. Bush administration, Karl Rove; conservative columnist George Will, who left the Republican Party; and the as-good-as-no Sen. Ted Cruz (R–Texas).
Others directly align with the Democratic nominee, either through their vote intent or formal endorsement. The recent stretch has been good for Clinton in this regard, with high-power movers from past Republican administrations coming over—former national security assistant under presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft; former CIA acting-director Mike Morell; Paulson Institute chairman and former U.S. treasury secretary and chief executive of Goldman Sachs GS 0.10% , Hank Paulson.
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