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Saturday, October 8, 2016
The Negatives for Trump and Hillary just keep getting worse
October 7th
What is going on with these two candidates? Enough already!
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With the shocking new "revelations" recently about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, it seems this election is about to get a whole lot worse.
It is not a shock that unearthed "hot mike" recordings of Donald Trump and Access Hollywood's Billy Bush were heard on their way to a taped event, which were released to the general public today. In it, Bush and Trump can be heard talking in lewd terms about several women that Trump and had met, and attempted to sleep with, and generally debased their reputations with "guy" talk aboard a bus on their way to watch Trump take part in a soap opera acting session, or something to that effect. While I am not surprised that it was somehow found and released just before the 2nd Presidential Debate, and the the timing reeks of politics, it does not help the embattled Trump's image with many female voters, one in which his mysogonist opinions and poor outlook towards women in general are well known and discussed. It presents a serious calamity with women voters, and seriously harms Trump's general election prospects, which were an uphill climb to begin with. Now, there is talk that he should drop out, but he is the type of person who will not, and that will force the GOP to determine if they chalk up this election as a loss, and work to obstruct President Clinton for the next four years.
The Republican party cannot support him publicly anymore, and many senior party officials must work overtime to protect their candidates who have winnable races despite the Trump albatross around their necks. Trump supporters will vote for their guy anyway, and this problem will be a left-leaning media story until November 8th. The GOP is in a world of hurt, and their problem candidate is about to explode party unity. The Republicans are trapped on a runaway train, going at high speed, with no crew in the engine, and there is no sign that train will stop until it is derailed. There are going to be many sleepless nights at GOP headquarters.
Hillary has new problems of her own, which will be covered by Fox News extensively, and by conservative websites and blogs. Wikileaks has released transcripts and emails from Hillary's speeches and emails from John Podesta, a Hillary campaign advisor. In her speeches, Wikileaks shows that what Hillary says in public about issues that progressives support (No TPP, no Keystone pipeline, etc), she supports those items, which will damn her to Bernie supporters as well. Allegedly, Hillary also supports reforms for Wall Street, but insists that Wall Street insiders must lead the charge, which will anger Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. I bet he does regret endorsing her now too. Also, Hillary is an advocate of an open, global economy, one that is contingent on an "open borders" policy. With immigration policy at the heart of this presidential campaign, this is going to hurt her. However, no liberal media network (CNN, MSNBC) will cover it. Those networks will spend most of their time on Trump's anti-woman narrative.
It is a shame, because the immigration issue could be a winner for the candidate that provides cogent, honorable and pragmatic immigration law and policies. A good friend of mine, Kevin Lynn, has written something related to this as a writer on a progressive blog:
http://progressivesforimmigrationreform.org/someone-left-truth-rain/
This election could be about issues that need addressing, and the American voter is anxious to hear solid policy positions, but the campaign now will be about two horribly unpopular candidates, and their increasing negartive narratives. This is a sad time for this country.
Shame on us.
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The dirt that will surface is only going to erupt in clumps almost daily over the next few weeks before election day. Sadly the younger voters will stay away and even the seasoned one will choose not to vote for either candidate. A bigger problem is getting them to return to the democratic process which is so integral to how we choose our leaders in this country. The media seek only to increase their viewership numbers and ratings and there are enough pundits to analyze the events. Agree that it is shame on US for allowing it to get to this stage. We need reform too!
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