CLEVELAND — Hillary Clinton’s campaign penned a devilish fundraising email Thursday with a subject line that surely got supporters to click “open.”
The mid-afternoon email from deputy communications director Christina Reynolds began with a single word — “Lucifer” — and ended with a call to action.
“If you’ve been watching the RNC this week, you might assume the goal of the GOP is to metaphorically (or literally) burn Hillary at the stake,” Reynolds wrote to the former secretary of state’s supporters. “They’ve called her ‘a piece of garbage,’ said she should be ‘in stripes,’ and that she should exchange her pantsuits for jumpsuits.”
She continued, “Ben Carson accused Hillary – with a straight face – of being connected to Lucifer. Yes, Satan himself.”
Indeed, Carson asked the Republican delegation in his convention speech Tuesday night whether Americans are “willing to elect someone as president who has as their role model someone who acknowledges Lucifer,” noting Clinton’s connection to community organizer Saul Alinsky. He later defended the comments during an interview with CNN.
“We’re not up against a typical Republican opponent,” Reynolds wrote, claiming that Trump and his campaign surrogates have “gone completely, gleefully rogue.”
“If we don’t keep Trump out of the White House, everything we care about — diversity, inclusion, acceptance — will go up in smoke,” the email stated, asking supporters to “chip in” to prevent that from happening.
This week, the Clinton campaign solicited donations in a fundraising email that highlighted recent calls for the Democratic presidential hopeful to be jailed.
