{"id":58736,"date":"2016-12-03T10:38:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T14:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=58736"},"modified":"2016-12-03T10:38:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T14:38:18","slug":"clinton-allies-plot-anti-trump-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=58736","title":{"rendered":"Clinton allies plot anti-Trump movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"subhead\">\u2018We\u2019re going to throw everything at him that he threw at us,\u2019 said one longtime Democratic operative.<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=5232339955001&#038;playerID=1764219419001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAETmrZQ~,EVFEM4AKJdRI6UgfPhFgV0s-3wZ2v95n&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=5232339955001&#038;playerID=1764219419001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAETmrZQ~,EVFEM4AKJdRI6UgfPhFgV0s-3wZ2v95n&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p class=\"byline\">By <span class=\"vcard\">GLENN THRUSH<\/span> and <span class=\"vcard\">NOLAN D. MCCASKILL<br \/>\n<\/span>POLITICO<\/p>\n<p>After most campaigns the combatants share cocktails and swap war stories \u2014 but the bitter 2016 battle for the White House is turning into a forever war with Hillary Clinton\u2019s tormented team vowing a four-year insurgency against Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>There are no consolation prizes from a loss as humbling and catastrophic as the heavily-favored Clinton suffered on Nov. 8. But for her aides, there is a measure of liberation, freedom from the constraints of having to defend their flawed, awkward front-runner and adopt the hell-to-pay role of insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>Since her defeat, Clinton has been wandering, with a tranquility that eluded her as a politician, in and out of strangers\u2019 Instagram accounts in bookstores and doggie walks in the woods near her Westchester manse. But in the meanwhile people in her orbit \u2014 enraged by the victory of a campaign they view as beneath contempt and a president-elect they view as a disgrace \u2014 are plotting an anti-Trump resistance and venting with a fury they never could have expressed in the service of their hyper-cautious candidate.<\/p>\n<p>A traditionally staid post-election forum at Harvard with Trump and Clinton\u2019s top aides degenerated into a nasty shouting match on Thursday night, and the public battle spilled over into Friday \u2014 with aides emphasizing a disunity seldom seen in the aftermath of a national election.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the nastiest exchanges between Trump and Clinton strategists in Cambridge on Thursday night, Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri suggested Trump\u2019s campaign was \u201ca platform for white supremacists\u201d and that Clinton\u2019s camp \u201cwould rather lose than win the way you guys did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sharp comment prompted Trump\u2019s final campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, to ask Palmieri whether she thinks Trump \u201cran a campaign where white supremacists have had a platform,\u201d questioning whether she could \u201clook me in the face and tell me that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did, Kellyanne,\u201d Palmieri said. \u201cI did.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"story-related\">\n<article class=\"story-frag format-sm\">\n<figure class=\"thumb\">\n<div class=\"fig-graphic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/12\/donald-trump-michigan-recount-blocked-232076\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazy-loaded\" src=\"http:\/\/static2.politico.com\/dims4\/default\/4001370\/2147483647\/legacy_thumbnail\/90x49%3E\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2Fa1%2F5d%2F9fe102654ee38e104d8d4f2a45b9%2F09-donald-trump-53-gty-1160.jpg\" alt=\"09_donald_trump_53_gty_1160.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"summary\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/12\/donald-trump-michigan-recount-blocked-232076\" target=\"_top\">Trump camp moves to block Michigan recount<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p class=\"byline\">By <span class=\"vcard\"><a class=\"url fn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/staff\/daniel-strauss\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"author\">DANIEL STRAUSS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Conway \u2014 who has spent much of the past two decades working for groups and candidates who have targeted the Clintons \u2014 was still smarting from accusations that the billionaire ran a racist campaign and still accusing Clinton&#8217;s aides of harboring a petty grudge a day later. \u201cI think some people are stuck in a permanent campaign and not really past the anger, grief and denial stages and into the acceptance stages,\u201d she told Fox News on Friday morning. \u201cBut that\u2019s OK because we won.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Washington winning is everything \u2014 but it\u2019s not permanent.<\/p>\n<p>And Clinton\u2019s vast network of supporters, staffers and operatives is now looking for a way to fight back \u2014 without their standard-bearer \u2014 modeled on the resistance movement organized by the GOP in the wake of President Barack Obama\u2019s victory in 2008, the Republicans\u2019 \u201cParty of No\u201d period.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton allies like David Brock have been actively recruiting Democratic donors to fund an anti-Trump movement modeled on the armada of organizations that sued, flacked, opposition-researched and insulted Clinton into a 55 percent disapproval rating. Trump is already there, but Brock and other Democratic operatives are contemplating a Freedom of Information Act barrage against the president-elect comparable to the one undertaken against Clinton by the conservative group Judicial Watch. Other left-leaning groups, including the Center for American Progress, are looking into ways of holding Trump accountable for his job-creating campaign promises \u2014 possibly by disseminating reports on the president\u2019s record directly to voters and media into swing states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan that swung surprisingly to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to throw everything at him that he threw at us,\u201d said one longtime Democratic operative active in the effort.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the shock and grief of Clinton\u2019s loss has transmogrified into anger \u2014 and many Clinton and Obama veterans are saying that Trump\u2019s low-road campaign frees them from the traditional wait-and-see period afforded to prior presidents. Trump, for his part, seems to have softened his taunting tone only modestly: During a victory lap event in Cincinnati on Thursday, the president-elect crowed about winning in a \u201clandslide\u201d \u2014 despite trailing Clinton by more than 2.5 million in the national popular vote, and he stood back smiling contentedly when the crowd broke into its familiar \u201clock her up!\u201d chant.<\/p>\n<p>Conway, who toured the morning news shows, maintained that Trump won \u201cfairly and squarely\u201d with 306 electoral votes \u2014 breaching a \u201cblue wall\u201d of states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin \u2014 and did little to hide her satisfaction at Trump\u2019s stunning win three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"story-related\">\n<article class=\"story-frag format-sm\">\n<figure class=\"thumb\">\n<div class=\"fig-graphic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/12\/kirsten-gillibrand-mattis-waiver-232099\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazy-loaded\" src=\"http:\/\/static2.politico.com\/dims4\/default\/d99cb0b\/2147483647\/legacy_thumbnail\/90x49%3E\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2F8d%2F2d%2Fcc2fc8144462960822d7bd9557dc%2F161201-gillibrand-ap-1160.jpg\" alt=\"161201_Gillibrand_AP_1160.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"summary\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/12\/kirsten-gillibrand-mattis-waiver-232099\" target=\"_top\">Gillibrand says she won&#8217;t vote for Mattis waiver<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p class=\"byline\">By <span class=\"vcard\"><a class=\"url fn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/staff\/elana-schor\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"author\">ELANA SCHOR<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI understand that they\u2019re angry,\u201d she said, referring to Clinton aides. \u201cI understand some of them are bitter, but they made it very personal last night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And she argued that the notion that Trump\u2019s campaign is a platform for white supremacists is \u201cnot a fact\u201d and \u201cjust completely false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident-elect Trump has denounced every single element of that awful movement,\u201d Conway said, referring to the so-called \u201calt-right,\u201d a combination of white nationalists, white supremacists and neo-Nazis who support Trump. \u201cHe\u2019s never met these people. He doesn\u2019t ask for their endorsement. He denounced it in an on-the-record interview with The New York Times just last week. But I think some people are stuck in the permanent campaign and ought to realize that Donald Trump won 306 electoral votes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have slammed Trump\u2019s decision to name former Breitbart executive chairman Steve Bannon as his chief strategist and senior counselor, labeling the former Trump campaign CEO a white supremacist who doesn\u2019t belong in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe white supremacist running the campaign was a pretty big hint\u201d that the Trump campaign gave a platform to white supremacists,\u201d Dan Pfeiffer, a former senior adviser to Obama, tweeted Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Benenson, the Clinton campaign\u2019s chief strategist, rebutted Conway in an interview Friday on CNN \u2014 his first TV interview since the election \u2014 pointing to Bannon\u2019s past comments about Breitbart News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Bannon called it the platform for the alt-right,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But Benenson ultimately put the onus on Trump himself. \u201cHe\u2019s the president-elect right now. He\u2019s got a responsibility to both run the country and show moral leadership,\u201d Benenson said. \u201cAnd when people, like they did in Washington, D.C., a few weeks ago, you know, deliver the Nazi salute blocks from the White House, he should be denouncing them by name, he should be calling them out, he should be saying the Ku Klux Klan should not be celebrating and parading in North Carolina.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Clinton press secretary Brian Fallon advised the media to call out bigotry by any means.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf calling out bigotry is uncivil, then maybe the media needs to be less hung up on civility these next four years,\u201d he tweeted Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/12\/harvard-trump-clinton-campaigns-fight-232109\">http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/12\/harvard-trump-clinton-campaigns-fight-232109<\/a><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018We\u2019re going to throw everything at him that he threw at us,\u2019 said one longtime Democratic operative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}