{"id":16922,"date":"2016-09-02T11:11:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T11:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16922"},"modified":"2016-09-02T11:11:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T11:11:43","slug":"running-out-the-clock-hardly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16922","title":{"rendered":"‘Running out the clock’? Hardly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I keep hearing reports of how Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton is “running out the clock” against Republican opponent Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n

The suggestion is that she’s got the Electoral College locked up and that she’s not going to do anything to put that sure thing in jeopardy.<\/p>\n

She’s ceded the political stage to Trump in recent weeks. He’s taken full advantage of Clinton’s generosity.<\/p>\n

In doing so, Clinton is giving Trump some more ammo to fire at her … which is that she “lacks the stamina” the be commander in chief.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I’m thinking might happen.<\/p>\n

We’re coming up on the Labor Day weekend. We’ll all grill some burgers, hot dogs and brisket, pay tribute to working men and women, watch a little college football.<\/p>\n

Then on Tuesday, my strong hunch is that Hillary Clinton is going to launch her campaign full bore, going stride for stride with Trump.<\/p>\n

You know and I know — and so does Trump and his team know — that Clinton’s brain trust has developed a strategy for dealing with Trump’s seemingly countless flaws as a national political candidate. They start with his utter lack of knowledge of, well … anything<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Is she running out the clock?<\/p>\n

I doubt it.<\/p>\n

Seriously.<\/p>\n\n

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I keep hearing reports of how Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton is “running out the clock” against Republican opponent Donald J. Trump. The suggestion is that she’s got the Electoral College locked up and that she’s not going to do anything to put that sure thing in jeopardy. She’s ceded the political stage to … Continue reading ‘Running out the clock’? Hardly<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[5818,1424,2139,3688],"class_list":["post-16922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-campaign-2016","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-potus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16925,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16922\/revisions\/16925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}