Hillary Clinton was supposed to sleepwalk to the Democratic nomination, and then the presidency, but things aren’t going so well. She’s in danger of losing to Bernie Sanders in both Iowa AND New Hampshire, in what could set off a replay of 2008.
But that’s not what worries Hillary the most. According to some sources, her people are more worried about a certain New York billionaire:
Some Democrats are losing faith that their presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton can win in a general election fight against Donald Trump, the fierce-tongued GOP front-runner who already has obliterated many of his opponents in his own party.
Early polls indicated Clinton would easily defeat Trump in a November head-to-head matchup, but a more recent Rasmussen poll shows the two in a statistical tie.
According to The Washington Times, some of Clinton’s supporters still believe she can best a Trump candidacy, but others fear her past provides too much grist for Trump, who already has gone after her husband, former President Bill Clinton, for his past with women, and has said Hillary Clinton is partially to blame for the creation of the Islamic State (ISIS) because of her time as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state.
“We’re going to start to have to look at how the [Democratic] candidates play against Donald Trump, because he’s certainly holding onto his lead in the Republican Party, and he has certainly played the Republican candidates in a way that has hurt some of his opposition, and I think people are going to start asking, ‘All right, who’s going to stand up under his type of campaigning?'” David Allen, a Democratic Party leader in Barnstead, New Hampshire, told the Times.“If Bernie [Sanders] is the candidate, Trump will play up how un-American socialism is, and if Hillary gets it, he will dig up everything in the past 40 years and use it — and won’t mince words in using it,” Allen said.
There also isn’t a lot of excitement behind Clinton’s campaign as there is for Trump’s, other Democrats told the Times.
“Hillary is so familiar, she’s been around forever,” Ron Romine, chairman of the Democratic Party in Spartanburg, South Carolina, told the Times. “She has her supporters, and they’re going to go out and vote for her, so there’s not a whole lot to parse out. You either like her or you’re not enthusiastic.”
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