Bill Clinton’s Bad Judgment

June should have been the month in which Hillary Clinton solidified her control over the Presidential race. She finally vanquished Bernie Sanders, who, if a few hundred Iowans had changed their minds and a few other things had broken his way, could have ended up as the Democratic nominee. As she turned her attention to Donald Trump, she seemed to settle into a five- to seven-point lead, while outspending him, twenty-six million dollars to nothing, in television advertising. Her massive financial advantage was matched by an enormous organizational advantage. Trump fired his campaign manager and is reportedly struggling to find prominent figures outside his immediate family who want to speak at his Convention, later this month. The two leading candidates to be his running mate are said to be Chris Christie and Newt Gingrich, who have abysmal approval ratings. In early June, Christie’s rating among registered voters in New Jersey hit a historic low of twenty-six per cent. The last time Gingrich was in the public spotlight and pollsters asked questions about him, in March of 2012, when he was ending his campaign to be the Republican Presidential nominee, his approval rating stood at twenty-four per cent. Meanwhile, Trump continues to alienate top Republicans, first with his racist comments about Judge Gonzalo Curiel and then with anti-free-trade speeches that were condemned by the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, two of the most important Republican-oriented interest groups.

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