Politico: “Back in early September, tensions between Capitol Hill Democrats and Clinton’s Brooklyn-based campaign had been simmering for months — sometimes over money but more often about Clinton’s message and the fact that she insisted on defining Trump as separate from, rather than a creature of the modern Republican Party.”
“And three days after the Mook and Podesta meetings, when Clinton’s campaign unveiled a new ad, those tensions boiled over. The spot, which aired nationally on cable and in six battleground states, featured a half dozen sitting GOP lawmakers criticizing Trump. ‘Unfit. Dangerous. Even for Republicans,’ read the text on the closing screen.”
“Why was Clinton, congressional Democrats fumed, promoting current Republican lawmakers as paragons of good judgement — Jeff Flake, Ben Sasse, Reid Ribble, Richard Hanna — members of the same GOP Congress that Democrats had spent years painting as extremist?”
Said one House Democratic adviser: “You just don’t need to go there. It was a selfish strategy.”
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