Trump On Display & Hillary In Hiding
By DICK MORRIS
& EILEEN MCGANN
Published on
TheHillaryDaily.com on July 20, 2016
The two conventions now assembling have diametrically opposite
strategies, caused by their differing political needs.
Trump is in trouble because of how he acts.
Hillary is in trouble because of what she's done.
The goal of the Republican Convention is to show Trump acting
presidential yet passionate. Well informed yet focused on key issues.
Dignified but also determined. The goal is to show Trump as those of us
who know him well know him to be. (My father was his lawyer.)
The Democrats have the opposite problem. Their job is to counteract the
negative opinions of Hillary almost two-thirds of America has formed.
Having spent a year trying to make Hillary appear honest, trustworthy,
likable, and human, they are admitting failure and are settling for
disguising her candidacy behind a series of generic masks.
Hillary isn't running. The first woman is running. And it is really
Bill who is running as part of the package. It's not Hillary's
candidacy that is at stake but abortion rights, and gun control, and
climate change, and immigration, and religious tolerance. They are
dressing Hillary up in the costume of issues so that it is not she who
is front and center, but the issues and the changes she represents.
So the Republicans are trying to feature Trump while the Democrats are
trying to bury -- or at least disguise --- Hillary.
Each party may succeed or fail in its mission. But one thing is
certain: It is easier to change how you act than to change what you
have already done in the past. And that is Trump's key advantage
COPYRIGHT 2016, EILEEN MCGANN AND DICK MORRIS.
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