Courtesy - AMY CHOZICK and PATRICK HEALY- www.nytimes.com
In the days after Donald J. Trump vanquished his Republican rivals in South
Carolina and Nevada, prominent Democrats supporting Hillary Clinton are
seriously considering the plan how to defeat Mr. Donald Trump?
Several Democrats argued that Mrs. Clinton, should she be her party’s
nominee, would easily beat Mr. Trump. They were confident that his incendiary remarks about
immigrants, women and Muslims would make Trump unacceptable to many
Americans. They had faith that the growing electoral power of black, Hispanic and female voters would
deliver a Clinton landslide if he were the Republican nominee.
Hillary team would portray Mr. Trump as a misogynist and an enemy to the
working class whose brash temper would put the nation and the world in grave
danger.
President Obama has told allies he would gleefully portray Mr. Trump as incapable of
handling the duties of the Oval Office.
Mr. Trump as a wily, determined and indefatigable
opponent who seems to be speaking to broad economic anxieties among Americans
and to the widely held belief that traditional politicians are incapable of
addressing those problems.
‘Against Bigotry’
The greatest weapon against Mr. Trump, the Clintons
believe, is his tendency to make outrageous, even hateful comments that can
come across as unpresidential. During the most recent Republican debate on
Thursday, Mr. Trump traded schoolyard taunts with his rivals and threatened to
build an even bigger wall on the Mexican border because he did not like a
rebuke of his original wall proposal by a former president of Mexico.
Strategy for Overcoming Trump
The plan has three major thrusts: Portray Mr. Trump as a heartless
businessman who has worked against the interests of the working-class voters he
now appeals to; broadcast the degrading comments he has made against women in
order to sway suburban women, who have been reluctant to support Mrs. Clinton;
and highlight his brash, explosive temper to show he is unsuited to be
commander in chief.
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