Pundits And Consultants Explain Donald Trump's Shocking Victory
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Political pundits and consultants weighed in with Chris Stigall on Talk Radio 1210 following Donald Trump's shocking upset of Hillary Clinton in the presidential election, expressing amazement with how he managed to find a way to emerge victorious and blaming Clinton's defeat on profound faults overlooked by the media.
Jeff Roe, the Founder of Axiom Strategies and the campaign manager for Ted Cruz's presidential campaign, said Clinton's problems prevented her from maximizing her voter potential.
"What he did is really, frankly, somewhat traditional to what a political campaign against Hillary Clinton would be. You have a deeply flawed, potentially under multiple FBI investigations, candidate. You have a candidate that's having a very hard putting together the base. You have a person that, for all the critiques of Republicans that we can only win whites, you have a candidate that can't put together the Obama coalition."
John Hayward, who writes for Breitbart, believes voters abandoned Democrats across the country just out of their sheer opposition to Hillary Clinton.
"What really happened, I think nationwide, was this rejection of the Democrats. This was the Democratic party being crushed. I mean, they were extinguished. They lost everything. It was night of, just, jaws dropping as one result after another came in and every one of their hopes for taking the Senate and the House was dashed, and then Trump wins. This was a gigantic movement of people across the country that didn't want Hillary Clinton and they voted Trump even though everybody told them, everybody they watched on TV said he couldn't possibly win...It was just a comprehensive, top to bottom, rejection of the entire Democratic party."
AB Stoddard from Real Clear Politics continues to be surprised with how the President-Elect pulled off such momentous outcome
"He defies convention and he won it largely from the air, from TV and Twitter and large rallies and just through a message that way, instead of really trying to make sure he ran up the score with every voter that he could by knocking on their doors and making sure that he had them in his tent."
Roe also said his firm's polling data saw the signs that Trump could win, but no one wanted to believe him.
"The most stunning thing is that even though the fundamentals, I released a poll on Sunday...that had him winning Iowa, winning North Carolina, winning Ohio, winning Florida, down one in Virginia and down in several states he needed to win. What I said was, he's down, but the ingredients for the victory are there and you would've thought that I released the plague upon the population."
