Hillary Just Got Obama’s Endorsement: Who’s Got the Stronger Squad Now, Trump?

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    Hillary Just Got Obama's Endorsement: Who's Got the Stronger Squad Now, Trump?


    By Jason Zengerle

    You could almost forgive Donald Trump for thinking the hard part was over. Having laid waste to the supposedly formidable Republican establishment in the primaries, he assumed he could count on a unified GOP to back him. And sure enough, the Republican rank-and-file seemed to be falling in line, "rallying behind Trump as if he were any other nominee," polling analyst Harry Enten recently noted. So, too, were the GOP mandarins: Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, even Paul Ryan all began to bite their tongues and signal their support in the last week. Their motives were clear: As the unsurpassably cynical McConnell put it when asked how the "Party of Lincoln" could defend a racist candidate, "I think the party of Lincoln wants to win the White House."

    But this week, in the face of Trump's continued racist attacks on the judge overseeing the Trump University case, his GOP establishment support began to crumble. Some, like Ryan and Rubio, began tiptoeing away; and Illinois senator Mark Kirk—who's in a tough reelection campaign—rescinded his endorsement of Trump entirely. South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham, one of the few elected Republicans who's refused all along to board the Trump Train, predicted there would be more defections, telling The New York Times, "There'll come a time when the love of country will trump hatred of Hillary."

    To make matters worse for Trump, just as the exodus from him gains speed, the Democrats' biggest guns are coalescing behind Hillary. Granted, they were pretty much with her all along in her fight against Bernie Sanders. But now that she's clinched the nomination, they can be even more forthright about it. Indeed, for all the recent worry about Hillary's prospects against a candidate like Trump, there hasn't been much talk about one of her biggest strengths: The team that's now coming to pitch in. Unlike Trump—who's the definition of a one-man team—Hillary Clinton calls to mind André the Giant. She has a posse.

    For starters, she's got Bill Clinton, who—as I've reported—is gearing up to play a much more prominent and aggressive role against Trump than he did against Sanders. Even if the Big Dog's lost a step or two, he's still an extremely popular (and often effective) campaigner, and it's easy to imagine him rising to the challenge on the big stage, much as he did in 2012 when he delivered a crucial convention speech for Obama.

    She'll also have Elizabeth Warren, whose no-holds-barred Twitter campaign against Trump will be coming to real, live campaign rallies and TV studios between now and November. In fact, Warren has proven to be such a potent weapon against Trump that some speculate that Clinton could tap the Massachusetts senator as her running mate.

    Clinton will even have Bernie. Sure, Sanders and his campaign team are pissed right now, but their tempers will soon cool. Back in April, Sanders pledged to support Clinton if she were the nominee. This week, Tom Harkin—a frequent ally of Sanders when the two men were in the Senate together—predicted that Sanders would even "give a good stemwinder speech" for Hillary at the convention.

    And then, of course, there's President Obama. His endorsement just came in. During the Democratic primary, the president had to remain neutral (although he didn't hesitate to put his finger on the scale on Clinton's behalf when he could). But now that Clinton has secured the Democratic nomination, Obama's free to assist her in a more public fashion. He was going to do that regardless, but the fact that Clinton's running against Trump will likely lead Obama to take an even more active role in the campaign.

    After all, as much as Obama has warmed to Hillary over the years, his affection for her is nowhere nearly as intense as his dislike of Trump. It was on display five years ago, when Obama memorably and mercilessly roasted Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. "[W]e all know about your credentials and breadth of experience," Obama told Trump. "For example…no seriously, just recently, in an episode of Celebrity Apprentice, at the steakhouse, the men's cooking team did not impress the judges from Omaha Steaks. And there was a lot of blame to go around, but you, Mr. Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership, and so ultimately you didn't blame Lil Jon or Meat Loaf, you fired Gary Busey. And these are the kinds of decisions that would keep me up at night. Well handled, sir. Well handled." Obama went on to deliver more vicious Trump jokes last month at the 2016 WHCD.

    But even when Obama talks about Trump in less comedic settings, he does little to hide his contempt for him—whether he's likening him to a pitchman on the Home Shopping Network or noting that the presidency "is not a reality show." There is a serious case to be made against Trump—namely that he's temperamentally unsuited to occupy the White House—and Hillary herself began making it in earnest last week. But another line of attack against Trump will simply be to lampoon and belittle him. In that respect, Obama could prove especially helpful to Clinton.

    Indeed, just having Obama's support at all should prove a boon to Clinton. It's been nearly 30 years—when George H. W. Bush had Ronald Reagan in his corner—since a presidential candidate has had the current occupant of the White House as a surrogate. (In 2000, Al Gore foolishly didn't want Bill Clinton's help; in 2008, John McCain wisely didn't want George W. Bush's.) As the actual candidate, Hillary, to be sure, will have to do the bulk of the work. But having her husband and Obama and the rest of her party's establishment in her corner—especially while Trump continues to war with his own party—will make that task much easier. Bill Clinton once said, "In every presidential election, Democrats want to fall in love. Republicans just fall in line." In 2016, the script has been flipped.
     
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    I still think it's a little too early to put Sanders in that line up (I'm getting more of an MC Serch vibe from him anyway lol).

    Once he stops making double statements and A REAL endorsement he can take an MC Ren role (nuh-uh, Bernie, don't even think you Dre)

    Although Hillary can rightfully play the Cube role now when answering Sanders

    "The villain does fuked with no Vaseline...."
     
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