{"id":1718262,"date":"2022-10-31T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T10:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1718262"},"modified":"2022-10-31T11:08:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T15:08:23","slug":"bob-mcmanus-hillary-clinton-goes-to-bat-for-her-clone-kathy-hochul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bob-mcmanus-hillary-clinton-goes-to-bat-for-her-clone-kathy-hochul\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob McManus: Hillary Clinton Goes to Bat for Her Clone, Kathy Hochul"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbob-mcmanus-hillary-clinton-goes-to-bat-for-her-clone-kathy-hochul%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1718262&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/bob-mcmanus.png?w=76&#038;h=69&#038;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Bob McManus\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/bob-mcmanus.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/bob-mcmanus.png?w=38 38w\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/30\/pete-king-touts-zeldins-amazing-surge-in-governor-race\/\">Kathy Hochul\u2019s faltering gubernatorial campaign <\/a>has enlisted Hillary Clinton for a last-minute rally this Thursday at Manhattan\u2019s Barnard College \u2013 an ironic and amusing maneuver.<\/p>\n<p>Also, puzzling.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s ironic because Clinton was 2016\u2019s prohibitive presidential favorite \u2013 and the candidate now forever known as the only Democrat in America who couldn\u2019t beat Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>And here is Hochul, also a morning-line sure-shot, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/29\/hochul-losing-steam-in-governors-race-major-predictor-says\/\">struggling mightily against a high-profile Trump acolyte<\/a> in cobalt-blue New York.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s amusing because Clinton and Hochul\u2019s respective campaigns are so similar: strategically clunky, simultaneously uninspired and uninspiring \u2013 and featuring candidates incapable of cracking a convincing smile even in friendly crowds.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s puzzling because Hillary\u2019s stump style hurt big-time \u2013 and bringing her into the current contest, even at a super-supportive women\u2019s college rally, is at best a tactical mystery. Hochul already has Manhattan\u2019s Upper West Side, after all, so why energize the 45 (of 61) New York counties Trump carried in 2016 to come out and vote against Hillary one more time?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s this:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat difference does it make, at this point,\u201d the former secretary of state responded, infamously, when asked why she hadn\u2019t personally comforted family members <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/06\/28\/final-benghazi-report-blames-clinton-disregarding-witnesses\/\">following the 2012 Benghazi massacre.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know why [crime is] so important,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/25\/hochul-baffled-when-zeldin-talks-jailing-criminals\/\">Hochul declared last <\/a>week during a campaign now largely defined by New York\u2019s soaring street and subway violence.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/clinton_hochul.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/clinton_hochul.jpg\" alt=\"Hillary Clinton, Kathy Hochul\" class=\"wp-image-24460777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/clinton_hochul.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/clinton_hochul.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/clinton_hochul.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Hochul\u2019s gubernatorial campaign has several similarities with Clinton\u2019s disastrous 2016 presidential race.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Lauren Petracca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tone deaf? More like stone deaf. Whether their words were born of ignorance or arrogance or both, they helped sink Hillary \u2013 and they could well be chiseled into Hochul\u2019s political headstone too.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a safe bet: Such words would never have occurred to, let alone be spoken by, the fellows who ushered Hillary and Hochul to political prominence: former president Bill Clinton and exiled former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, respectively.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>The two men brought a level of authenticity to their campaigning that clearly was lacking in Hillary\u2019s 2016 effort \u2013 and is all but MIA in Hochul\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, maybe they were faking it \u2013 Andrew especially. But if so, they did it well enough to win big. Hillary couldn\u2019t \u2013 and while the book is still open on Hochul, electoral H-Hour is near.<\/p>\n<p>Analogies can take one only so far, of course. The 2016 Clinton contest was bewilderingly complex, and for stakes infinitely higher than anything on the table in New York this year.<\/p>\n<p>But there are constants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NBC News, in a post-2016 analysis, termed Clinton and Trump \u201cthe two most unpopular candidates in modern presidential campaign history\u201d \u2013 and this seems fair enough.<\/p>\n<p>But Trump overcame that in large measure by appealing to voters who felt excluded from the process \u2013 who, in fact, were allergic to the elitist progressivism burned into 21<sup>st<\/sup> century Democratic policies and politics.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/clinton_hochul_5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/clinton_hochul_5.jpg\" alt=\"Hillary Clinton, Kathy Hochul\" class=\"wp-image-24460798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/clinton_hochul_5.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/clinton_hochul_5.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/clinton_hochul_5.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Hochul\u2019s race against Rep. Lee Zeldin has now been graded as a \u201ctoss up\u201d by RealClearPolitics.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo by KENA BETANCUR\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Of course, that didn\u2019t work the second time around, no matter what the former commander-in-chief says, but the practicalities of the 2016 election cycle seem lost on Kathy Hochul &#038; Co. \u2013 and productively absorbed by Republican candidate Lee Zeldin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/29\/kathy-hochul-has-history-of-signing-woke-bills\/\">Embracing progressive policy nostrums<\/a> \u2013 on energy, on crime, on the Second Amendment, on what\u2019s euphemistically termed \u201creproductive rights\u201d \u2013 always will pay some dividends in New York. Hence the Hochul approach.<\/p>\n<p>But ideology fades before the supermarket cashier in times of high inflation and economic insecurity. And it simply evaporates when people fear for their safety in the streets and on subway platforms. Thus does the down-home, if sometimes frantic,\u00a0 Zeldin strategy resonate.<\/p>\n<p>The contrasts certainly help explain why polls have narrowed so dramatically. And why the RealClearPolitics news-aggregation site suddenly termed\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/15\/ny-governors-race-now-toss-up-between-gov-kathy-hochul-and-rep-lee-zeldin\/\">New York\u2019s once-predicted gubernatorial blow-out a toss-up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That Hillary Clinton and Kathy Hochul are campaign clones is a big factor, too. And this should become even more evident amid the theatrical smiling at Barnard College Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><em>Email: bob@bobmcmanus.nyc<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy Hochul\u2019s faltering gubernatorial campaign has enlisted Hillary Clinton for a last-minute rally this Thursday at Manhattan\u2019s Barnard College \u2013 an ironic and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1718266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1718262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1718266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}