In Clintonland, It's 'DEFCON 1' for Trump

NBC News ^ | May 4, 2016 | Alex Seitz-Wald

[Innovative]

For more than two years, Hillary Clinton has been Democrats' sure-thing next presidential nominee, while Republicans sorted through a messy and expansive field of wannabes.

Yet now, she's dealing with an interminable primary, as the GOP's new presumptive nominee Donald Trump trains his sights on her.

The sudden departures of Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. John Kasich from the Republican race - which came sooner than Clinton aides expected - coupled with Sen. Bernie Sanders' decision to stay in the race, creates a new challenge for Clinton, who now has to defend herself on two flanks.

"I'm still trying to come to terms with the fact that any Republican, let alone Donald Trump, was able to solidify the nomination before she was," said Patrick Murray, the polling director at Monmouth University. "This makes it really tough for her. There's no feasible way for Bernie Sanders to win the nomination, yet his decision to fight on in anything more than just a token way means she's got to continue to expend resources in places that she wouldn't bother."

[Fantasywriter]

Yes, that was a Trump tweet. He’s got close to eight million Twitter followers, and each one of those has friends, family and work associates— plus many have Twitter followers of their own. Word of mouth from Trump’s tweets spreads fast. Plus look for Trump to beat this drum in speeches and interviews. Before he’s done, he’ll have Bernie supporters cross-eyed with hatred for Hillary.

As was said in the beginning:Trump is a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.

[IDFbunny]

She was going to beat any GOPe candidate just on the identity politics alone. Checklist conservatives have no cross over appeal and that’s what it takes to beat Hillary.