Another goal is to win over skeptical
Republicans, since nothing unites the party quite like castigating the
Clintons. Attacking them could also deflect attention from Mr. Trump’s
vulnerabilities, such as his treatment of women, some Trump allies say.
For Mrs. Clinton, the coming battle is something of a paradox. She has
decades of experience and qualifications, but it may not be merit that
wins her the presidency — it may be how she handles the humiliations
inflicted by Mr. Trump.
She would make history as the first woman to be a major-party nominee,
yet she would also be viewed, in part, through the prism of her
husband’s flaws. Some political allies and friends, while disgusted with
Mr. Trump, see a certain cosmic symmetry at work: After decades of
fighting what she once called “the politics of personal destruction,”
Mrs. Clinton will reach the White House only if she survives one more
crucible of sordid and scandalous accusations.“She
is so prepared to be president, but holding her head high and staying
dignified during the campaign is probably what will help her the most,”
said Melanne Verveer, a longtime friend and former chief of staff to
Mrs. Clinton. “Trump is yet another way she will be tested personally —
one of her greatest tests yet.”Mrs.
Clinton has often flourished in the wake of boorish behavior: her
husband’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, Kenneth W. Starr’s investigation
of her husband, the congressional impeachment proceedings. Women rallied
to her side during her 2000 Senate race after her Republican opponent,
Representative Rick A. Lazio, invaded her personal space during one
debate, and they helped her win the 2008 New Hampshire primary shortly
after Barack Obama dismissively
Yet Mr. Trump said he was determined not to fall into those traps.
In a telephone interview, he noted that women did not like seeing Mrs.
Clinton insulted or bullied by men. He said he wanted to be more
strategic, by calling into question Mrs. Clinton’s judgment in her
reaction to Mr. Clinton’s affairs — people close to the couple have said
she was involved in efforts to discredit the women — and in her
response to crises like Benghazi.
“Just getting nasty with Hillary won’t work,” Mr. Trump said. “You
really have to get people to look hard at her character, and to get
women to ask themselves if Hillary is truly sincere and authentic.
Because she has been really ugly in trying to destroy Bill’s mistresses,
and she is pandering to women so obviously when she is only interested
in getting power.”
He acknowledged that Republicans tried to discredit her judgment in
themarathon Benghazi hearing in the fall, to little avail. But he said
that he would be more pointed and memorable in linking her to the
failings and deaths in Libya, and that the debate would have a vastly
larger television audience than the hearing. Still, advisers of Mrs.
Clinton pointed to her face-off with the Republican-led Benghazi
committee as a sign of her unflappability.“From
Rick Lazio to the House Benghazi committee, there’s a long line of
Republicans who set out to personally attack Hillary Clinton but ended
up inflicting the damage on themselves,” a Clinton campaign spokesman,
Brian Fallon, said in a statement. “We know Donald Trump is the most
unconventional of them all, but no matter what he throws at her, she
will keep running her own campaign and won’t hesitate to call him out.”
Several Clinton advisers said they were not underestimating Mr. Trump’s
ability to do some damage, acknowledging that Mrs. Clinton’s
unfavorability ratings were high — though not as high as Mr. Trump’s —
and that many Americans had concerns about her honesty and
trustworthiness, according to polls.
But these Clinton advisers expressed confidence that Mr. Trump would
overreach and engender sympathy for Mrs. Clinton. Two advisers said that
the campaign had done polling to test the possible effectiveness of Mr.
Trump’s lines of attacks and, while not disclosing details about the
data, that they were convinced that he would not seriously hurt her.
Mrs. Clinton, in turn, has begun attacking Mr. Trump over his refusal to
release his tax returns, suggesting he has something to hide, and over
his temperament and leadership abilities by describing him as a “loose
cannon.” And political allies say that, in time, voters will see through
Mr. Trump’s criticisms.
“He can’t run on his forward-looking agenda because he doesn’t have one,
and he can’t go after her on substantive policy because she knows so
much more than he does,” said Thomas R. Nides, Mrs. Clinton’s former
deputy secretary of state for management and resources.
Yet Mr. Trump has been steadily underestimated during the presidential
campaign. His and some political
strategists were sure his lack of policy details would make him
unprepared in the eyes of too many.Even
one of Mrs. Clinton’s biggest assets to many Democrats — becoming the
first female president and returning Mr. Clinton to a White House role —
can be exploited as vulnerabilities.
“We’ve never had a woman at the top of the ticket, and there will be
plenty of people who’ll have a problem with her gender,” said Christina
Greer, a political scientist at Fordham University. And Mr. Trump “can
say that Bill Clinton was accused of rape and destroyed a girl’s life,”
she added, referring to allegations by Juanita Broaddrick of a sexual
assault in the 1970s and to the Lewinsky affair.
With polls showing that Mr. Trump has unprecedented high negative
ratings with voters and is in particular trouble with women, some
Republican strategists say he has no choice but to try to drive up Mrs.
Clinton’s unfavorability ratings. A recent CNN/ORC poll found
that 57 percent of likely Trump supporters said that their votes were
more to express opposition to Mrs. Clinton than to support Mr. Trump.“His
best way to rally hostile Republican delegates before the convention is
to show he’s a great Clinton attack dog,” said Mike Murphy, a
Republican strategist who oversaw a “
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