{"id":16318,"date":"2016-12-02T04:35:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T04:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=16318"},"modified":"2016-12-02T04:35:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T04:35:28","slug":"shouting-match-erupts-between-clinton-and-trump-aides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/shouting-match-erupts-between-clinton-and-trump-aides.html","title":{"rendered":"Shouting match erupts between Clinton and Trump aides"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shouting match erupts between Clinton and Trump aides<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Shouting match erupts between Clinton and Trump aides:-<\/strong> The raw, lingering emotion of the 2016 presidential campaign erupted into a shouting match here Thursday as top strategists of Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign accused their Republican counterparts of fueling and legitimizing racism to elect Donald Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n

The extraordinary exchange came at a postmortem session sponsored by Harvard University\u2019s Kennedy School of Government, where top operatives from both campaigns sat across a conference table from each other.<\/span><\/p>\n

As Trump\u2019s team basked in the glow of its victory and singled out for praise its campaign\u2019s chief executive, Stephen K. Bannon, who was absent, the row of grim-faced Clinton aides who sat opposite them bristled.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri condemned Bannon, who previously ran Breitbart, a news site popular with the alt-right, a small movement known for espousing racist views.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician, I am proud to have lost,\u201d she said. \u201cI would rather lose than win the way you guys did.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Kellyanne Conway, Trump\u2019s campaign manager, fumed: \u201cDo you think I ran a campaign where white supremacists had a platform?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou did, Kellyanne. You did,\u201d interjected Palmieri, who choked up at various points of the session.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDo you think you could have just had a decent message for white, working-class voters?\u201d Conway asked. \u201cHow about, it\u2019s Hillary Clinton, she doesn\u2019t connect with people? How about, they have nothing in common with her? How about, she doesn\u2019t have an economic message?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Joel Benenson, Clinton\u2019s chief strategist, piled on: \u201cThere were dog whistles sent out to people. . . . Look at your rallies. He delivered it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

At which point, Conway accused Clinton\u2019s team of being sore losers. \u201cGuys, I can tell you are angry, but wow,\u201d she said. \u201cHashtag he\u2019s your president. How\u2019s that? Will you ever accept the election results? Will you tell your protesters that he\u2019s their president, too?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The session was part of a two-day forum that the school\u2019s Institute of Politics has sponsored in the wake of every presidential election since 1972. It gathers operatives from nearly all of the primary and general election campaigns, as well as a large contingent of journalists, with the stated goal of beginning to compile a historical record.<\/span><\/p>\n

Generally, the quadrennial gatherings are frank but civil ones, in which political operatives at the top of their game accord each other a measure of professional respect.<\/span><\/p>\n

This year, in the wake of a brutal campaign with a surprise outcome, it was clear that the wounds have not yet begun to heal. The animosity of the campaign aides mirrors the broader feelings of millions of voters on both sides.<\/span><\/p>\n

Campaign officials lashed out at each other, and also against the media \u2014 which neither side believed had treated it fairly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook also acknowledged that her operation had made a number of mistakes and miscalculations, while being buffeted by what he repeatedly described as a \u201chead wind\u201d of being an establishment candidate in a season where voters were eager for change.<\/span><\/p>\n

He noted, for example, that younger voters, perhaps assuming that Clinton was going to win, migrated to third-party candidates in the final days of the race.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where the campaign needed to win upward of 60 percent of young voters, it was able to garner something \u201cin the high 50s at the end of the day,\u201d Mook said. \u201cThat\u2019s why we lost.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He and others also faulted FBI Director James B. Comey for deciding in the waning days of the campaign to revive the controversy over Clinton\u2019s use of a private email server.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump officials said Clinton\u2019s problems went beyond tactics to her weaknesses as a candidate and the deficits of a message that consisted largely of trying to make Trump unacceptable.<\/span><\/p>\n

David Bossie, Trump\u2019s deputy campaign manager, taunted Mook: \u201cYou call it \u2018head winds,\u2019 I call it self-inflicted wounds.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Conway added, \u201cThere\u2019s a difference for voters between what offends you and what affects you,\u201d arguing that Trump was speaking more directly to people\u2019s anxieties and needs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Strategists for Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), who waged a strong challenge against Clinton for the Democratic nomination, agreed. \u201cThere was a large part of the Democratic primary electorate who had concerns about the secretary\u2019s veracity and forthrightness,\u201d said Jeff Weaver, Sanders\u2019s campaign manager.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clinton\u2019s campaign aides insisted, again and again, that their candidate had been held to a different standard than the other contenders \u2014 as evidenced by the controversy over her use of a private email server while secretary of state.<\/span><\/p>\n

Palmieri said that many political journalists had a personal dislike for the Democratic nominee and predicted that the email issue will go down in history as \u201cthe most grossly overrated, over-covered and most destructive story in all of presidential politics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf I made one mistake, it was legitimizing the way the press covered this story line,\u201d Palmieri said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mook added that Trump deftly used his rally speeches to \u201cswitch up the news cycle.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe media by and large was not covering what Hillary Clinton was choosing to say,\u201d Mook said. \u201cThey were treating her like the likely winner, and they were constantly trying to unearth secrets and expose.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For instance, Mook posited that the media did not scrutinize Trump\u2019s refusal to release his tax returns as intensively as the issue of Clinton\u2019s private email server.<\/span><\/p>\n

Conway retorted: \u201cOh, my God, that question was vomited to me every day on TV.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The strangest criticism of the media, however, was by Trump\u2019s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski.<\/span><\/p>\n

His complaint: Journalists accurately reported what Trump said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the problem with the media. You guys took everything that Donald Trump said so literally,\u201d Lewandowski said. \u201cThe American people didn\u2019t. They understood it. They understood that sometimes \u2014 when you have a conversation with people, whether it\u2019s around the dinner table or at a bar \u2014 you\u2019re going to say things, and sometimes you don\u2019t have all the facts to back it up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

At a dinner the previous evening, CNN chief executive Jeff Zucker was heckled during a panel discussion about the media by operatives from several losing Republican campaigns, who accused the network of showering Trump with free publicity.<\/span><\/p>\n

To win the GOP nomination, Trump vanquished a highly credentialed field of 16 other Republicans, some of whom were backed up by tens of millions of dollars in outside spending. What his opponents failed to recognize, until it was too late, was that 2016 would be a year unlike any other, in which the standard rules would not apply.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe uniqueness of this cycle made it such that some of those traditional kind of avenues became less effective,\u201d said Danny Diaz, who managed the campaign of the presumed early front-runner, former Florida governor Jeb Bush.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMoney and mechanics matter, but passion about a candidate matters more,\u201d added Mike DuHaime, a strategist for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), another establishment figure in the race.<\/span><\/p>\n

Barry Bennett, the campaign manager for retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, said of voters: \u201cWhat they wanted more than anything else was strength, and Donald Trump was supplying it every day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Clinton consultant Mandy Grunwald had a darker interpretation, which she expressed in an icy backhanded compliment to the Trump team on Thursday: \u201cI don\u2019t think you give yourself enough credit for the negative campaign you ran.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She noted that the murky corners of the Internet were rife with false stories that Clinton was in dire health, and on the verge of going to prison. \u201cI hear this heroic story of him connecting with voters,\u201d Grunwald said. \u201cBut there was a very impressive gassing of her.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Benenson, meanwhile, served notice that the election may be over but that the battles it spawned are not.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou guys won, that\u2019s clear,\u201d Benenson said. \u201cBut let\u2019s be honest. Don\u2019t act as if you have a popular mandate for your message. The fact of the matter is that more Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than for Donald Trump.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/shouting-match-erupts-between-clinton-and-trump-aides\/2016\/12\/01\/7ac4398e-b7ea-11e6-b8df-600bd9d38a02_story.html?utm_term=.5f3ff95476b1<\/span><\/p>\n

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