2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Democratic Party is for social AND economic justice. It isn't an "either/or" situation! [View all]radius777
(3,817 posts)who were awful in how they ran the campaign, more like a 90's style "school lunches" campaign instead of hammering on major issues of the economy, healthcare, terrorism, etc.
Also, they should have been far more being more aggressive with Trump, should've slimed him with his many scandals more than they did. They seemed to only focus on his women/groping issues more than anything else, aside from in the first debate, where she was excellent in focusing on his financial issues and foreign policy craziness.
She kicked off the general election campaign with a very good foreign policy speech in San Diego, that was hard hitting and showed off her policy chops and gravitas.
With all that said, every candidate is flawed, and she won all three debates and had large and steady leads with 11 days to go, until Comey/FBI/Rudy illegally interfered with the election, throwing the election to Trump/GOP (senate was lost also).