2016 Postmortem
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Its time to stop pointing and laughing at the Republican primary. For all the GOP front-runners flaws, many veteran Democrats are beginning to conclude, Donald Trump is a canny operator who just might end up in the White House if theyre not careful.
He appears to be cracking the code with white working-class voters who could help him put blue Rust Belt states in play against Hillary Clinton. Hes helping to fuel record turnout in GOP primaries and hes mastered the media like no candidate in recent memory, with his constant feeding of catnip to cable TV and his 140-character missiles on Twitter.
Its fair to say theres been a graveyard already out there of people underestimating him, said Doug Sosnik, a former Bill Clinton White House adviser. And I am old enough to remember the sort of Democratic intelligentsia that was hoping Ronald Reagan would be nominated by Republicans in 1980 because everyone knew he was a doddering old right winger who could never get elected president.
So there is some danger to underestimating his candidacy, Sosnik said. "Having said that, I have enough confidence in the judgment of the American people to never elect someone like Donald Trump president of the United States."
Tracy Sefl, a Democratic consultant who was a senior adviser for Ready for Hillary, said Trump was the most dangerous Republican candidate to come out of the primary because hes unpredictable, shameless, unapologetic and utilizes a non-strategy strategy that has so far worked for him.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/democrats-on-donald-trump-threat-220118#ixzz41mDow8vm
comradebillyboy
(10,186 posts)She has a nomination to win before turning to Trump. Besides she doesn't want to distract from the Republican attacks on Trump we expect to see for the next couple of months.
Kber
(5,043 posts)Of what's been tried, what works and what doesn't.
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emulatorloo
(44,268 posts)PonyUp
(1,680 posts)emulatorloo
(44,268 posts)They both take him seriously.