They
are worried that a negative, race to the bottom with Trump could stifle
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lear to them -- especially over
the last 48 hours -- that Trump's strategy is to run the race into "the
sewer."
The thought goes like this:
Trump scorches Republicans, gets nastier with Clinton to the point that
she has to respond, voters get turned off and decide that they've had
enough with this election -- so they don't vote.
"I
think that this seems to be their strategy, disgust everyone with our
Democratic dialogue so that they won't come out to the polls," John
Podesta, Clinton's campaign chairman, told reporters aboard Clinton's
campaign plane.
He added: "I think
it is very unbecoming a presidential candidate. I guess he fires up the
people who go to Alex Jones and Breitbart. But I think it is very
unbecoming."
This
view is a change in the way Clinton's aides initially approached
Trump's candidacy. In early 2016, Clinton's aides said they felt that
Trump's comments about Latinos, African-Americans and women would boost
turnout in those communities, surpassing whatever boost the Republican
nominee enjoyed with white, working-class voters.
But
as Trump's campaign has grown more negative -- Trump tweeted that the
"shackles have been taken off" from the GOP establishment -- the view
from Clinton's Brooklyn headquarters has changed.
Clinton herself gave voice to turnout concerns.
"Despite
all of the terrible things he has said and done, he is still trying to
win this election. And we cannot be complacent, we cannot rest," she
told a Florida radio host on Tuesday.
She
added, quoting scripture: "Do not go weary while doing good. That
applies to this election as well as to our lives and our communities and
our faith."
One way Clinton's
aides feel she can counter Trump's negativity is to speak about her
affirmative message. The issue with that is that incessant releases of
hacked emails from Wikileaks and Trump's flame-throwing comments get
more coverage than Clinton's policy proposals, a fact that irks
Clinton's aides.
To overcome that,
Clinton's aides plan to campaign more with candidates running against
vulnerable Republicans in key swing states, hoping to tie those
Republicans with Trump.
"For down
ballot Republicans, people running for the Senate, people running for
the House, are they going to stay in line with this unshackled Donald
Trump?" Podesta rhetorically asked. "Are they with him, or are they
against him?"
Clinton's campaign also hopes that their ground game can counteract any apathy that may be out there on this election.
On
Tuesday, Lily Adams, Clinton's director of battleground communications,
sent reporters an email that touted higher ballot requests for
Democrats than Republicans in Florida, a more diverse
electorate in
North Carolina and a sizable uptick in Hispanic registration in Nevada.
For a long time, Ronald McDonald was a globally recognized icon
synonymous with the fast food giant, but the clown hasn't featured as
prominently in McDonald's advertisements in recent years.
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