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Related: About this forumPolitico: Hillary forces target Bush donors
So it's on full display that Hillary represents Bush values:Hillary forces target Bush donors
NEW YORK -- Hillary Clintons supporters in recent days have been making a furious round of calls to top Bush family donors to try to convince them that she represents their values better than Donald Trump, multiple sources in both parties told POLITICO.
The moves come as Clinton and the Democratic Party try to take advantage of deep unease among establishment Republicans on Wall Street and elsewhere with Trumps emergence as the presumptive Republican nominee.
Top targets for the Clinton team include people like Woody Johnson, Jeb Bushs former finance chair and the owner of the New York Jets. In recent days, Bushs brother and father, former presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, have said they plan to skip Trumps nominating convention.
One person close to Clinton said supporters of the former secretary of state drew up a list of Wall Street donors who supported Jeb Bush and other unsuccessful Republican candidates
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/hilary-clinton-bush-donors-222872#ixzz47r56SfMf
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NEW YORK -- Hillary Clintons supporters in recent days have been making a furious round of calls to top Bush family donors to try to convince them that she represents their values better than Donald Trump, multiple sources in both parties told POLITICO.
The moves come as Clinton and the Democratic Party try to take advantage of deep unease among establishment Republicans on Wall Street and elsewhere with Trumps emergence as the presumptive Republican nominee.
Top targets for the Clinton team include people like Woody Johnson, Jeb Bushs former finance chair and the owner of the New York Jets. In recent days, Bushs brother and father, former presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, have said they plan to skip Trumps nominating convention.
One person close to Clinton said supporters of the former secretary of state drew up a list of Wall Street donors who supported Jeb Bush and other unsuccessful Republican candidates
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/hilary-clinton-bush-donors-222872#ixzz47r56SfMf
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Politico: Hillary forces target Bush donors (Original Post)
amborin
May 2016
OP
Exactly. She considers the nomination in the bag and is reverting to her true form.
Lizzie Poppet
May 2016
#9
snowy owl
(2,145 posts)1. I thought she was too liberal for the right?
I guess being an "establishment" candidate trumps liberal. Establishment is one big club.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)2. It really is a big tent, not much of a view from under the stands.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)3. They are all birds in the same nest.
Every few years they just divide up the issues and put on a fake wrestling match..
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)4. She has Republican values, no disputing it.
Crickets from the Camp Bansalot crowd....you'd think they would be cheering Hillarys 'evolution'.
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)6. Well, they are her more natural allies than the Left Wing. /nt
CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)7. Well, it's not like she wouldn't protect their interests.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)8. She's targeting her base now. nt
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)9. Exactly. She considers the nomination in the bag and is reverting to her true form.
Well...the the degree that Princess Weathervane has a true form.
amborin
(16,631 posts)12. Yes, but she doesn't have the nomination locked down & it will be contested
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)13. One hopes.
I haven't given up hope.
TCJ70
(4,387 posts)10. But those damn Independents wanting to vote in primaries...
...messing everything up! Right? Can't be cozying up to them...
me b zola
(19,053 posts)11. KnR