Clinton shifts media tactics to take on Sanders, Trump

[Red Oak]

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton is adopting a more aggressive media strategy as she readies for a primary showdown in New York with rival Bernie Sanders and a possible general election battle with Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

The new approach was taking shape before Clinton’s loss to Sanders in Wisconsin — the Vermont senator's sixth win in the last seven state races — and was highlighted in a round of calls Clinton made on Wednesday morning to cable news shows.

In an interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Clinton pointed to the New York Daily News’s front page, a tabloid that had the blaring headline “Bernie’s Sandy Hook Shame” on Wednesday.

In the story, the daughter of the school principal killed in the Sandy Hook shootings criticizes Sanders for opposing an effort to allow mass shooting victims to sue gun manufacturers.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/275334-clinton-shifts-media-tactics-to-take-on-sanders-trump

Politicizing Sandy Hook? That's going to go over well, Hillary.

[tularetom]

1. Cheap pandering and a phony emotional appeal to people who have suffered tremendously

Clinton knows damn well that a bill to permit lawsuits against gun manufacturers would never survive a court challenge. Yet she's willing to exploit the families of victims of mass shootings to make brownie points.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

2. The comments about Sandy Hook may well backfire on Hillary, no pun intended.

I assume her campaign arranged for the grieving parent to make this statement?