To be fair, the problem wasn't all the marketing.
We also have to look at the product they were trying to sell.
Ugh.
Former President Bill Clinton privately criticized his wife Hillary's failed 2016 presidential campaign, complaining to a friend that it couldn't "sell p--y on a troop train," according to a new book.
The 42nd president's complaint was specifically aimed at the Hillary Clinton campaign's heavy use of identity politics -- attempting to paint Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) policies as sexist and racist in op-eds ghost-written by advocacy groups -- as the former secretary of state battled the socialist lawmaker for the Democratic presidential nomination.
"To the extent that the campaign tactic moved the needle at all, it likely pushed moderate voters paying only marginal attention to the campaign towards Sanders, who spoke like a normal person while Clinton began ascending into what her ally James Carville would later call, 'faculty lounge speak,'" journalist Ryan Grim writes in "The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution," which was released last week.
"Former President Bill Clinton, surveying the landscape and the ham-handed efforts at identity politics was bereft, lamenting to a longtime friend in the fall of 2016 that Hillary's campaign 'could not sell p--y on a troop train,'" Grim writes.
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When asked by Christiane Amanpour in the same interview whether she believed she was a victim of misogyny, Clinton responded, "Yes, I do think it played a role ... [misogyny] is very much a part of the landscape politically, socially and economically."
Clinton is reportedly now helping President Biden with his 2024 re-election campaign, hosting a fundraiser for the incumbent at her Washington, DC, home last month, according to NBC News.
Former President Donald Trump has the edge over President Joe Biden in seven crucial swing states in hypothetical match-ups with the 2024 general election less than a year away, according to a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll.
The poll, released on Thursday, shows Trump leading Biden in head-to-head races and in deeper fields in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. However, some of the advantages are within the margin of error.
Trump won six of these seven states in 2016, propelling him to the White House over Democrat Hillary Clinton, but in 2020, Biden carried six of these states in his victory over Trump. These states will decide the 2024 election, and Trump's early strength in them is cause for concern for Democrats and Biden, whose approval rating registers at historic lows in other recent polling.