Hillary Clinton’s campaign is once again acknowledging the prospect that she may lose to Donald Trump.
In a Thursday email to supporters titled, “Will we win big or lose yuuuuuge?,” campaign manager Robby Mook wrote to supporters:
2016 could go one of two ways, as far as I see it:
This could be the year we make history and elect Hillary Clinton as our first female President of the United States.
Or, this could be the year that we elect a man who openly uses sexist, racist, and Islamophobic rhetoric.
Whether we win big or lose yuuuuuge depends on how hard we work right now. I know this team has been pulling out all the stops, and I can’t tell you how much I appreciate that.
Mook then asked supporters to “chip in” $1 to help Hillary “fund a campaign that can win”.
It’s not the first time Hillary’s campaign manager has floated the possibility that she might lose.
In January, Mook sent an email to supporters predicting if Trump got the Republican nomination, he’d win the presidency.
“If Donald Trump takes the Republican nomination, our party will lose more than the presidency,” Robby Mook writes to supporters.
“Years of progress will be ripped away. Obamacare will be repealed. Marriage equality will be rolled back. Get excited to visit the wall on the Mexico border — and get ready to pay for it if President Trump can’t magically get Mexico to cough up the cash for it.”
While Mook stokes fear over an apparently inevitable Trump presidency, he’s also panicking over a surging Bernie Sanders.
Late last night, Bernie Sanders’ campaign announced they’d raised $1.4 million from 50,000 donations in a single day. The day before, they announced that the Reddit community had contributed more than $1 million to his campaign.
There’s no denying this: His supporters are stepping up. They see a chance to win in Iowa and they’re willing to go all in for their guy.
“We can’t let Bernie Sanders’ supporters out-match us,” Mook concludes. “It’s not just about the nomination. It’s about what comes next.”
In another email earlier that same month, Mook said he was “worried” and “annoyed.”
News just broke that Bernie Sanders is outspending us on TV in Iowa and New Hampshire by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I’m worried, because last-minute ads could cost us this election. And I’m annoyed — because once again, they’re counting on this team staying on the sidelines. …
They’ve got more donors than we do, more contributions than we have, and if they keep up this pace on TV, they’ll be able to get their message out to more people than we can.
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