Tuesday, September 13, 2016

September disaster for Clinton campaign (and the month's not even half over)!

The Hill ^ | September 13, 2016 | Niall Stanage 

Hillary Clinton's health problems - and, in particular, the shocking video of her being helped into a van on Sunday - are the worst developments yet for a campaign that has hit a serious rough patch.
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Democrats aren't in full-on panic mode just yet, but they are worried that a race that had looked comfortable only a few weeks ago is now seriously competitive. And they expect to be on edge for much of the next week, until the first polls appear indicating how Clinton's battle with pneumonia is affecting the contest.
The incident seems sure to further antagonize the media as well, because Clinton aides had derided reporters who raised her health as an issue, and the campaign was less than transparent about Sunday’s events.
The video of Clinton in a state of near-collapse on Sunday was "terrible," Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf acknowledged.
"The idea of her appearing to be out of physical control reinforces Trump's argument about her capacity and it reinforces the question of whether she is hiding something," Sheinkopf added.
Tobe Berkovitz, a Boston University professor who specializes in political communications, said that on a 1 to 10 scale, with 10 being the most damaging, the video footage rated "a 15."
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One silver lining to the health cloud may be the extent to which it has sidelined the controversy over the "basket of deplorables" comment.
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