Twitter explodes at Andrea Mitchell for declaring Trump ‘tough’ on terror but Clinton ‘off message’
MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell enraged many of her viewers on Monday when she suggested that she favored Donald Trump’s response to the plot to bomb areas of New York City and New Jersey.
After reviewing responses from both Clinton and Trump, Mitchell noted that the Republican nominee had been rewarded with a “tough persona” because of his harsh rhetoric in the wake of the 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino.
“This really does put Hillary Clinton on the spot,” the MSNBC host opined. “She has campaigned on her resume, on her advantages having been part of the administrations — secretary of state, a senator on Armed Services [committee] — yet, Donald Trump is still communicating toughness in a way that she hasn’t been able to.”
“And she also is off message in that this was going to be the big roll out of her appeal to millennials, a real problem that she has in inspiring young people to come out in the numbers and percentages that they did for Barack Obama.”
Viewers on Twitter, however, did not share Mitchell’s assessment of the two campaigns.
Aaaaaand there's good ole @mitchellreports turning this into a Hillary story. Fucking hack
— ?? GoBlue (@ChadwickFurr) September 19, 2016
@mitchellreports just can't resist a snide remark about @HillaryClinton , every day, no matter the situation. @MSNBC
— nananesbitt (@nananesbitt) September 19, 2016
Only Andrea Mitchell could sneak in a Hillary Clinton diss when talking about the bombing suspect. Bravo, asshole!
— Kay Reindl (@KayReindl) September 19, 2016
@mitchellreports saying how much terrorist bombings hurt Hillary Clinton. #HeadDesk
— soupcity (@emmbee1002) September 19, 2016
@mitchellreports Oh, Andrea, your bias slip is showing!
— MeWriter (@MeWriter1) September 19, 2016
Andrea Mitchell is ACTIVELY trying to get Trump elected.. #MSNBC
— Simon Byrd (@Uosdwis) September 19, 2016
@mitchellreports tell us this attack is bad for Hillary puts her "in a spot". What spot? She is hideous
— Franco (@FrancoIKU) September 19, 2016
Andrea Mitchell is impressed w/ Trump's "tough tweeting"
— David (@MMASOCCERFAN) September 19, 2016
@mitchellreports WHAT THE FREAK IS WRONG WITH YOU AND YOUR STUPID REPORTING???? ALL TRUMP IS IS A BIG MOUTH COWARD. YOU ARE YING!
— Deb (@Libradebbie) September 19, 2016
@Nysteveo2AOLcom @mitchellreports now she's saying how much terrorist bombings hurt Hillary. I can't stand it….
— soupcity (@emmbee1002) September 19, 2016
@mitchellreports really? Can you BE anymore negative and grinding in your hateful reporting of HRC.It's painful to hear your mean girl voice
— Margi MacMurdo-Readi (@MacMargi) September 19, 2016
Andrea Mitchell loves her some tough guy
— Steve Martin (@stevekmartin) September 19, 2016
OMIGOD @mitchellreports says Trump's toughness (real people call it insanity and hate speech) puts Hillary on the spot.
What planet is this— Alasscan™ (@Alasscan_) September 19, 2016
Andrea Mitchell tells me that terrorist attacks favor Trump. It was San Bernardino that gave him his "tough" persona.#whoknew
— digby (@digby56) September 19, 2016
@mitchellreports @kristenwelker I hope U don't think U R doing honest reporting. Hillary prioritized correctly. All U want is a headline.
— BarbaraBuon (@stoddard38) September 19, 2016
Andrea Mitchell just compared Hillary unfavorably to Trump on terrorism bc he sounds "tough." Apparently *sounding* tough is preferable. ??
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) September 19, 2016
@mitchellreports trump is strong? how bout he uses terror for his own gain ? u wer just completely off base and selfish opinion is crap
— Capt Markus (@Captmarkus) September 19, 2016
Andrea Mitchell is a hack reporter, please retire and stop your bloviated opinions about the obvious, MSNBC needs to have joy Reid on MTP
— William Few (@Gstate01) September 19, 2016
Andrea Mitchell practically declaring the end of the Clinton campaign today due to NYC bombing. SMH. #MSNBC
— Robert_A. (@OU182) September 19, 2016
Watch the video below from MSNBC, broadcast Sept. 19, 2016.
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Trump’s next 100 days will dictate whether he can be re-elected or not — here’s why
According to CNN pollster-in-residence Harry Enten, Donald Trump's next 100 days -- which could include an impeachment trial in the Senate -- will hold the key to whether he will remain president in 2020.
As Eten explains in a column for CNN, "His [Trump's] approval rating has been consistently low during his first term. Yet his supporters could always point out that approval ratings before an election year have not historically been correlated with reelection success. But by mid-March of an election year, approval ratings, though, become more predictive. Presidents with low approval ratings in mid-March of an election year tend to lose, while those with strong approval ratings tend to win in blowouts and those with middling approval ratings usually win by small margins."
With the impeachment inquiry leveling up this month as public hearings begin, and with an election that might actually be the end of Donald Trump now less than a year away, the campaign to let Trump's Republican allies — even the most villainous offenders — move on and pretend this never happened is already underway.
This article first appeared in Salon.
Sadly, the clearest articulation of the let-bygones-be-bygones mentality has come from a Democrat — unsurprisingly, former Vice President Joe Biden.Biden, who is still, somehow, the frontrunner in Democratic primary polling, spoke at a chi-chi fundraiser on Wednesday, and dropped this pearl of wisdom: "With Donald Trump out of the way, you’re going to see a number of my Republican colleagues have an epiphany."
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