Hillary Clinton has been blindsided and this has fired her up
The
Clinton campaign predicted a WikiLeaks intervention, but the new FBI
probe has taken them by surprise.
Her email scandal has delivered an 11th hour gift to her opponent and critics.
There
was a celebrity distraction on show on Saturday night - Jennifer Lopez
offering a rallying cry to Latino voters and millennials who Mrs Clinton
needs.
As J-Lo and her dancers dazzled the soaked crowd, Mrs
Clinton's been busy with her own bit of political choreography, trying
to turn the focus of the FBI review into a rallying cry against her
opponent.
Her campaign is at war with James Comey, too. They
predicted a WikiLeaks intervention, but this unexpected review from the
FBI blindsided them.
Hillary is in attack mode. She will ultimately bear responsibility
for whatever happened to her emails, but she is now sharing the stage
with Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin.
What it does mean is the
spotlight has shifted from Donald Trump. Republican strategists tell me
if he can remain disciplined and resist the propensity to tweet in the
early hours, there is plenty of political capital to be made.
But in the crowd, Mrs Clinton's abuse seems more fired up than I have seen for some time. There is anger, resentment. Some say that as volunteers they feel
even more driven about getting Mrs Clinton to the White House.The drip, drip of emails, they say, does not whiff of suspicion, but a partisan play.
The
content of the emails is unlikely to be known before the election. It
is understood the FBI director does not even have the legal authority to
read them yet. But in the absence of facts, the potential damage is
impossible to assess.
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