In yesterday’s CNN/ORC poll Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presumptive nominee leads billionaire Donald Trump, the Republican presumptive nominee nationwide by 5 points, 47% – 42%.
5 points! Really?? In a week where Trump calls for a halt to all immigration from Muslim majority nations, he wants to initiate surveillance against all Muslims in the United States both ones that are American citizens as well as Muslims that are not; he insinuates that our President may be complicit in the massacre of 49 American citizens in Orlando, he impugns the integrity of a Federal judge and his Mexican heritage, in fact continues to slander any person of Mexican descent while exploiting members of the LGBT community who suffered dearly this past week while he has not lifted a finger for that community, in fact still repudiates their right to love and marriage. His weekly harangue disparaging women and Native-Americans continues, sometimes in the same sentence; his campaign is in disarray firing his campaign manager while his campaign funds amount to a sum that wouldn’t be enough to run for a seat in the House of Representatives, his party is in disarray with almost universal condemnation of their party’s standard bearer’s xenophobic rants and massive insurrection threatening the GOP convention in Cleveland not to mention panics in his party about down ticket ramifications in the U.S. Senate, the House and statehouses around the country and his reply to them: “sit down and shut up”. Democrats unite in coordinated well-choreographed denunciations of Trump by the President, Vice President, President Clinton, heroes of the party’s left wing base Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and even former Republican President George W. Bush, 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney and Speaker of the House Ryan and yet the poll has Donald Trump down by 5 points…….
……Hillary…it’s time to throw the playbook out. Pick Senator Warren as your running mate, mollify the left.. have Warren continue as the attack dog she so aptly displayed, get you’re A game on and run a flawless campaign.
This anger tide Trump is riding is strong, inchoate and dangerous. You wanted to be the only candidate standing between Donald Trump and the nuclear codes you better perform.
This is not fun, this is scary.