Kellyanne Conway Schools Clinton Campaign at Harvard
“No, you wouldn’t”, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway responded, with disdain in her voice. She added, “Hashtag he’s your president”.
Every four years Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government hosts aides from opposing campaigns for a frank postmortem of the presidential election.
It was an autopsy that raised the cadaver from the examination table, charging the Trump side of “fueling and legitimizing racism to elect Donald Trump”.
Donald Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Tuesday September 27, 2016 the candidate does not believe climate change is man-made, a day after his previous statements on the issue were scrutinized at the first presidential debate.
Jennifer Palmieri: Dan, If providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant stra…a brilliant tactician, I am glad to have lost.
Another Clinton failing was in presuming that people who voted Democratic before would do so again, Conway said.
Clinton’s team said they didn’t regret their responses to Trump’s racist and sexist remarks, saying they were some of their proudest moments in the race.
The conversation quickly devolved into Palmieri accusing the Trump campaign of running on a platform of white supremacy and catering to the ‘alt-right.’ Conway called the Clinton campaign bitter and that their candidate just couldn’t connect with people is the reason why they lost.
Joel Benenson, a pollster for Clinton, then accused the Trump campaign of sending out “dog whistles”, according to the Huffington Post. Ted Cruz as well.
Elsewhere during the conference, CNN President Jeff Zucker was heckled by GOP campaign managers during a Wednesday night dinner at the Charles Hotel. Bernie Sanders, a Democratic primary challenger, for helping “soften up” Clinton and paving the way for Trump’s victory.
“You showed empty podiums”, shouted Todd Harris, who worked on Florida Sen. “That is not cable news’ fault and that is not CNN’s fault”.
Clinton was dogged throughout her failed White House run by monthly releases of sensitive emails, dating from her time as secretary of state, that she housed on a private server in her basement.
“Perhaps the most accurate description of Trump and the fresh hell we live in as a result of the election came from Jeb Bush’s former campaign manager Dave Kochel, who compared the orange fascist to Godzilla: “(Trump) touched the third rail.
Harvard IOP has provided audio from this and other segments of its 2016 Campaign Decision Makers Conference, which you can listen to here.
“Look, I want to move forward, I don’t want to move back”.
Though the strategists could not approach a consensus on what led to Trump’s surprise victory, some on Trump’s team insisted they saw the victory coming. While at first he proclaimed that “We are not going to be divided for long”, Trump went on to say, “We did have a lot of fun fighting Hillary, didn’t we?” to a crowd that was chanting “Lock her up!” In fact, a swing of fewer than 100,000 votes across three key states would have given the presidency to Clinton.
Mook blamed Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey for having cost Clinton the election with his vague letter. They accused Trump’s team of peddling lies on social media and alt-right websites. “Guys, I can tell you are angry, but wow”, Conway reportedly said.
“It was very spirited and obviously some of these feelings are still raw”, she said of the Harvard discussion.
Palmieri: It did Kellyanne!