Mischief Maker wrote:Turns out the Gabbard campaign's latest shot-in-the-arm was a misquote of Hillary Clinton. She didn't say "Russians" were grooming her as a third party spoiler, she said "Republicans."
Seems like that would take a lot of "errors" considering how often it appears in transcripts:
Clinton: "The thing we have to do is get enough people to turn out so that they can’t, you know, steal those votes through suppression in Wisconsin, or convince blacks not to vote in Michigan, all the stuff that they did this last time which was very effective and the Russians play a big role in."
Plouffe: "Right, and they’ll double down on this time. Trump had those advantages but he was not an incumbent. So as we know, whether it’s Ronald Regan, your husband, Barack Obama, those first 18 months of the election cycle were as important as the last six months. …
"You know, Donald Trump, as you know better than anyone in the world, only got 46.1% of the vote nationally. You know he got 47.2 in Wisconsin, 47.7 in Michigan, and if you had said those before the election you would have said he's going to lose in a landslide."
Clinton: "Right."
Plouffe: "But one of the reasons he was able to win is the third party vote."
Clinton: "Right."
Plouffe: "And what's clear to me, you mentioned, you know, he's going to just lie. ... He's going to say, whoever our nominee is, ‘will ban hamburgers and steaks and you can't fly and infanticide’ and people believe this. So, how concerned are you about that? For me, so much of this does come down to the win number. If he has to get 49 or even 49.5 in a bunch of…"
Clinton: "He can't do that."
Plouffe: "...which I don't think he can... So he's going to try and drive the people not to vote for him but just to say, ‘you know, you can't vote for them either.’ And that seems to be, I think, to the extent that I can define a strategy, their key strategy right now."
Clinton: "Well, I think there's going to be two parts and I think it's going to be the same as 2016: ‘Don't vote for the other guy. You don't like me? Don't vote for the other guy because the other guy is going to do X, Y and Z or the other guy did such terrible things and I'm going to show you in these, you know, flashing videos that appear and then disappear and they're on the dark web, and nobody can find them, but you're going to see them and you're going to see that person doing these horrible things.’"
"They're also going to do third party again. And I'm not making any predictions but I think they've got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third party candidate. She's the favorite of the Russians. They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far, and that's assuming Jill Stein will give it up. Which she might not, 'cause she's also a Russian asset."
Plouffe: (Inaudible)
Clinton: "Yeah, she's a Russian asset, I mean, totally.
"And so, they know they can't win without a third party candidate and, so, I don't know who it's going to be it but I will guarantee you they'll have a vigorous third party challenge in the key states that they most need it."
Still blaming that 1.07% of the electorate not able to bow their heads and vote blue no matter who. (Also by this logic the 3.28% Gary Johnson got didn't steal votes away from Trump somehow. Only Hillary is entitled to votes. We must ignore that Obama somehow managed to weather the ferocious all-powerful storm that is Jill Stein.
And her nefarious ally, Cynthia.)
You can check here if she indeed used a different boogeyman and never mentioned the Damn Reds. The site's racist against my old man web browser and I don't care enough to use a different computer to check. Most websites only disavow the "grooming" part, and substantiate she made the racist "Russian asset" slur. If true, this push is
damage control and spin.
An aside, Plouffe was one of the many shills who lied about what the polls said.
... dude looks like Mike Matei.
She's not peeling votes from Biden or Warren or Buttigieg, she's taking votes from Bernie Sanders.
She's not going to reach viability in Iowa. The people who caucus for her will have to chose another candidate or leave. She's not going to reach viability in New Hampshire. The margin she gets in the primary there won't be enough to move 1 delegate. She's dropping out before Super Tuesday.
At best she's stomped out any hope Harris had, convinced a few people that nuking Iran would be a bad thing to do, and endorses Sanders. At worst, she endorses Warren. Her relevancy is only slightly higher in the real world than the 0.00% she's getting here at shmups forum.