October 21, 2016 1:57 PM
Clinton’s WikiLeaks strategy: Doubt, delay, distract
By Anita Kumar
akumar@mcclatchydc.com
ORLANDO, Fla.
The emails are full of potential damage for Hillary Clinton. She weighed the political implications of policies. She is close to Wall Street. Her aides gathered information to discredit a woman who’d accused her husband of rape.
So how has she so far remained largely unscathed by the unprecedented release of hacked emails? It’s one part a deliberate strategy of casting doubt on the authenticity and distracting from the content of the emails, one part fatigue by Americans who already have seen tens of thousands of Clinton’s emails and one part a whole lot of luck.
With Clinton leading in both national polls and battleground-state surveys, the Democrat is in some ways trying to run out the clock on the election.
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