{"id":9715,"date":"2016-12-05T13:30:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T18:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=9715"},"modified":"2021-04-05T16:48:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T20:48:24","slug":"went-wrong-clinton-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/went-wrong-clinton-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"What Went Wrong With The Clinton Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the eve of the 2016 presidential election, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New York Times<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> put up an election forecast page with polls and infographics detailing how each state was likely to behave during election night. Their conclusion? Hillary Clinton had an 85 percent chance of winning the election, listing a staggering \u201c693 ways to win.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What actually happened on election night came as a surprise to many: a Brexit-style victory for the right, which begs the question, what went wrong with the Clinton campaign?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before any of the issues are discussed, we must understand that this election was primarily based on who the candidates were rather than what they stood for. Hillary Clinton\u2019s reputation as a career politician helped fuel Donald J. Trump\u2019s populous rhetoric. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/vote-not-vote-hillary-clinton-question\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Clinton<\/span><\/a> failed to connect with voters in \u201csafe states\u201d assuming she had a large lead. The so-called \u201cBlue Wall\u201d in the rust belt ended up proving my point: Secretary Clinton was out of touch with working class Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Clinton campaign also heavily relied on voters rejecting Trump\u2019s blunt language. Her campaign focused on political correctness, often highlighting the offensive nature of Trump\u2019s comments. This tactic achieved partial success at best; although Clinton won the women\u2019s vote, Donald Trump got a much larger percentage of the vote than the Clinton campaign expected, proving that being politically correct was not enough to win everyone over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I spoke with Nailin Gonzalez, 19, who is a student attending Florida International University at the Maidique Campus. She supported Trump in the general election and like many Americans, one of the reasons she chose Trump over Clinton was that \u201che does not go by political correctness, he says what he thinks even if it&#8217;s not the most appealing thing for the public to hear.\u201d On the other hand, she saw Clinton as \u201ccorrupt\u201d and said it was \u201creally hard to believe anything of what she ever said.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She added that she was very \u201cpro-protests\u201d, citing that \u201cevery citizen should go ahead and practice their right,\u201d but she also felt \u201cdisgruntled\u201d with the way some protesters have incited violence and vandalism. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nailin represents a growing number of young Hispanic Americans who didn\u2019t vote based on how offensive Trump\u2019s comments were but rather embraced his boldness, tilting the crucial Florida electorate in Trump\u2019s favor. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In short, the Clinton campaign allowed Trump to set the rules, and then played by them. This election was never about being anti-establishment or \u201cdraining the swamp.\u201d Trump made it this way. Instead of embracing her experience, Clinton tried to paint herself as an outsider because she was a woman, as seen in a CBS interview where she stated \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Clinton campaign will serve as a case study for the Democratic Party for decades to come. Connecting with voters and not taking anything for granted will be at the heart of every future presidential campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of the 2016 presidential election, The New York Times put up an election forecast page with polls and infographics detailing how each state was likely to behave during election night. Their conclusion? 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