Chapter 18: Sheila's Dilemma
"Sheila has long been committed to opposing special interest groups, whether they are donors to our camp or not. However, you should see that Republican groups and candidates are spending hundreds of millions of dollars attacking Sheila through various media, and we have to make sure we have the resources to fight back. ”
On the TV screen, Sheila? Jesse, the spokesman for the Clint camp? Ferguson (jesse_) was being interviewed by the media, explaining to the camera with a serious face.
Sheila's team is obviously very efficient, and since the fundraising dinner, Li Jie has been regularly and irregularly, always receiving campaign materials and progress from the staff.
The large amount of donations raised by both sides of the campaign is almost always used in public relations and the media to solicit votes and, more importantly, to discredit their opponents.
Recently, the Republican Party has put a lot of advertisements to "stop Sheila", hyping up the "Benghazi incident in Libya" and "mailgate" to attack her soft underbelly. And what about Sheila? One of Clint's biggest controversies was that she received a lot of donations from big conglomerates. Those who say that while Sheila has long emphasized her concern for the interests of low-income, middle-class, and laborers, her campaign is financed by big conglomerates in the finance, insurance, and real estate industries, and that what she says is a lie that will never truly represent the middle class and the working class.
Sheila's team has clearly done a lot of work to deal with this attack, and Jesse Ferguson's statement was part of that.
"Sheila doesn't really want to correct the current campaign finance system, does she?" Flower was a little puzzled, he originally thought that this was just a slogan used by Sheila to fool voters and win votes, but combined with the information received and Sheila's speeches over the years, it seems that this woman really moved this mind?
In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a ruling. Since then, Sheila has repeatedly spoken about correcting the dysfunctional campaign financing system, mainly targeting money-burning machines such as super-large "political action committees" and even threatening to amend the constitution, which apparently won her a lot of votes. But it's campaign season. Such an offer apparently did not please the consortium, and directly led to the hindrance of her current fundraising efforts. Compared to the criticism of the opponents, it is clear that this is Sheila's real trouble.
Sheila surely understands that such a reform is extremely difficult. Reform the electoral system by amending the Constitution? Even if she succeeds in the White House, it will not be possible. ”
Tim? The rabbi shook his head, in the current system and conditions, unless Sheila was a pure idealist. Otherwise, it is impossible to still have such thoughts. The most convincing evidence is that in the more than a year since she entered the election campaign, she has never made any similar remarks in public. But it's a pity that those previous public speeches have obviously made her lose points in the hearts of many consortiums, and it is not easy to make up for it now.
"All the challengers want to change the system. Because they want to make themselves the most distinctive and powerful people, in the words of an old Chinese saying, that is, to leave a name in history. But once they win the challenge, most of them change their positions and start to want to maintain the system, consciously or unconsciously. ”
Li Jie smiled and shook his head, the current owner of the White House and the great orator had not also made similar opinions, but as a result, he didn't know where those words were thrown by him at the beginning.
Speaking of the current owner of the White House, Sheila's information also has some troubles about him. There have been rumors from the outside world before. In 2012, Obama's approval ratings in the polls fell, and his chief strategist, David Brown, was able to see his approval ratings slip in the polls. Axelrod had advised him. Clint's support helped win over skeptical voters. To this end, Obama communicated with Clint several times, and finally reached a secret agreement with the Clint family, in which Clint supported his re-election campaign at the cost that Obama must fully support Sheila's entry into the White House in 2016.
Originally, there was no problem, because the current president, who was born in the Democratic Party. Obama is sure to support his party's candidate. Recently, however, the president has suddenly become ambiguous, and the change is intriguing. According to the information provided by Sheila, Li Jie has roughly understood the reason.
In accordance with the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. presidential election is held every four years, and congressional elections are held every two years. This resulted in one of the congressional elections being held at the same time as the quadrennial presidential election, and the other between the two presidential elections. The congressional elections, held between the two presidential elections, are commonly known as the "midterm elections."
At the end of 2014, in the last midterm elections of Obama's term, the Republicans seized control of the Senate from the Democrats, while maintaining their majority in the House of Representatives, changing the situation in which the Senate and the House of Representatives had been held by the Democrats since 2008. As time passed, the Republican Party achieved great success, the Democratic Party suffered a crushing defeat in both chambers, and the most unhappy except for the Democratic Party was Obama. He was faced with a situation where neither the Senate nor the House of Representatives wore a pair of pants with him, and he was bound as if his hands were tied, which was really miserable.
In such a situation, Obama clearly has his own interests in mind first, and it would not be surprising if some kind of agreement was reached with the Republicans for the sake of his proposal. And the content of this agreement, most likely, includes the renunciation of support for Sheila, which is the fundamental reason for his drastic change of attitude.
"It's not hard to figure out why, Obama is leaving office, what is the most important thing for him before that? Maybe we can do something from here. "Tim? The rabbis are obviously very accustomed to the behavior of these politicians who turn their backs on people, and although it seems a bit of a bad character, sometimes you don't have a choice for the sake of profit.
"Sheila knows for sure that since she sent us the information and explained that it is something that she also finds difficult to do, I am afraid that it will not be too easy to win Obama's support."
Flower frowned, and even the Clint family, the campaign machine running at full strength, was embarrassed by how troublesome it was. What Tim said, Sheila couldn't have thought of, but apparently she was ready to give up, otherwise it wouldn't be noted on the information. (To be continued)