How Donald Trump Could Have Been Taken Down With 8 Simple Words [View all]

It was a steamy sunny afternoon in my Philadelphia hotel lobby during the third day of the 2016 Democratic National Convention. I was there to retrieve a package from the desk and was waiting in line while two other customers were talking about the upcoming election.

One man, a Hillary Clinton staffer, was engaging with a woman who claimed to be a pro-Trump voter. He was exhorting her not to vote for Trump for the usual reasons: he’s not what he says, he’s racist, he’s insane…

The two continued their back and fourth to nowhere until I broke in, leaving her time to get away from the conversation I sensed she was a bit annoyed with anyway.

“You know how Donald Trump could have been defeated with eight simple words during the primary?” I asked the Hillary staffer.

“How is that?” he asked.

“The first time he told someone to shut up during one of the debates, like he did to Jeb Bush, all Jeb would have had to reply with was “Then come over here and shut me up.”

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