Across battlegrounds, Democrats blame HQ’s stubborn commitment to a one-size-fits-all strategy.
Everybody could see Hillary Clinton was cooked in Iowa. So when, a week-and-a-half out, the Service Employees International Union started hearing anxiety out of Michigan, union officials decided to reroute their volunteers, giving a desperate team on the ground around Detroit some hope.
They started prepping meals and organizing hotel rooms.
SEIU — which had wanted to go to Michigan from the beginning, but been ordered not to — dialed Clinton’s top campaign aides to tell them about the new plan. According to several people familiar with the call, Brooklyn was furious.
Turn that bus around, the Clinton team ordered SEIU. Those volunteers needed to stay in Iowa to fool Donald Trump into competing there, not drive to Michigan, where the Democrat’s models projected a 5-point win through the morning of Election Day.
Michigan organizers were shocked. It was the latest case of Brooklyn ignoring on-the-ground intel and pleas for help in a race that they felt slipping away at the end.
“They believed they were more experienced, which they were. They believed they were smarter, which they weren’t,” said Donnie Fowler, who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee during the final months of the campaign. “They believed they had better information, which they didn’t.”
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2 comments:
Thank goodness, we don't hear how the dude in our White House inherited all that bad stuff President Bush let behind. After eight years of blaming his problems on "W", maybe we have some new material.
The entire country knows that the current state of affairs is OBAMA's fault!
Now with the Legislative and Executive branches in conservative control (except for the RINO's!), they should be able to populate the Judicial branch for the next couple of generations. At that point, if they get nothing done, a yuuuge batch of "Trumps" will get elected during the next cycle and these two parties will dissolve at the feet of the people!
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