Hillary Clinton’s campaign had 16 email exchanges before replying to ONE Marco Rubio tweet

Hillary Clinton’s campaign had 16 email exchanges before replying to ONE Marco Rubio tweet October 21, 2016

I can’t stop laughing.

We need to elect someone that isn’t spoon fed from handlers.

Here’s a hilarious discovery from the Wikileaks reveal. When Marco Rubio tweeted negatively to Clinton, it took sixteen emails and nine hours to tweet back:

The emails apparently showed that at the end of July, the Clinton campaign put their heads down when Rubio tweeted “After Clinton’s failed ‘reset’ with Putin, now she wants to do a ‘reset’ with Castro. She is making another mistake” around 7:30 a.m. “Here we go,” speechwriter Dan Schwerin replied when someone shared the tweet. Foreign policy adviser Jake Sullivan suggested the first draft to hit Rubio back:

Perhaps an HRC tweet along the lines of: Those who seek to lead our country should focus on the future, not try to pull us back to the past. Embargo hasn’t worked for 50+ years. Let’s try something new. [WikiLeaks]

Another foreign policy adviser, Laura Rosenberger, gave her own stab at a reply. “Love hitting him back,” deputy communications director Christina Reynolds jumped in. Eventually someone thought to tag Marco Rubio with his handle; speechwriter Lauren Peterson suggested replying directly to Rubio: “People will see this and it will get picked up.”

Finally, nine hours later, they came up with this.

I so appreciate someone who’s off the cuff and can speak for themselves. Someone who doesn’t have ties attached to all their limbs and a mouth piece controlling everything from tweets to smiles during speeches.


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