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With Only 20 Days Until the Election, Hillary Clinton Finally Releases an Ad About Donald Trump’s Policies

Posted on
October 19, 2016
by Andrew Cullen
Donald Trump has done such a great job filling headlines with fiery, “tell it like it is” rhetoric, that the Hillary Clinton campaign is just now getting around to talking about his policies.

Unfortunately for the Clinton campaign, when it comes to Trump’s policies there isn’t really much to talk about. Except of course his promise to build a physical border wall with Mexico, which voters have been reminded of on a daily basis for the last year and a half.

Although the rest of Trump’s pseudo-policies are basically just simplified forms of already existing and long-standing Republican policies, the Clinton campaign’s opposition research arm, The Briefing, is taking a few cracks at them anyway.

Clinton Finally Goes After What Donald Trump Calls ‘Policies’

In case anyone in the country was still unfamiliar with Donald Trump’s immigration plans, Clinton’s ad starts with those policies, just to be safe. “You’re going to have a deportation force,” Donald Trump tells MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski – in November 2015. OK, we get it.

“But there’s also his economic plan,” the ad reads, before jumping to MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt who reads from a Moody’s Analytics report that predicts “Donald Trump’s economic policies would cause the economy to be significantly weaker, cause a lengthy recession [and] have three-and-a-half million fewer jobs.”

The ad also features a clip of Trump’s problematic plan for the national debt, which includes “renegotiating” it and making “a deal.” Of course, this has literally never been done before and the insinuation that the government could pay back its debts at a discounted rate would be bad for the U.S. (and international) economy on basically every level. Trump of course walked that statement back a bit (in the same interview).

The ad of course can’t leave out Trump’s Supreme Court plan, which includes appointing judges that would “overrule the decision on same-sex marriage” – a policy that is directly at odds with Trump’s earlier statement that he would be a “real friend” of the LGBT community.

The ad rolls through Trump’s plan on foreign policy – for which there isn’t much to say since Trump doesn’t want to reveal his plans to the enemy – before it ends on a title card that reads, “Even if Trump’s bullying, bigotry, and misogyny weren’t disqualifying, his policies would be.”

Well, if Trump’s Policies Are So ‘Terrible,’ Why Hasn’t Clinton Been Attacking Them for Months?

There’s a rule in politics: if your opponent is torching their campaign all on their own, don’t get in the way. That has basically been Hillary Clinton’s entire strategy for dealing with Donald Trump.

And even though by nearly every objective measure, voters say they want to hear less about personalities and more about “the issues,” the fact of the matter is that issue-specific ads just don’t make for captivating television – especially if your opponent has a new crazy quote every week.

But who knows, maybe 20 days before the election is as good a time as any to start talking about “the issues.” At least they will be fresh on everyone’s minds (if not drilled into everyone’s minds) come November 8.
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