The big names and speeches at the Democratic National Convention did not move the needle any more in Hillary Clinton’s favor, according to conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer.
In a column Thursday night for the Washington Post, Krauthammer said that despite help from her former president husband, still a popular figure among voters, the DNC did not sell Clinton as the most fit candidate for the White House, even when compared to Donald Trump.
“The one man who could have given the pudding a theme, who could have created a plausible Hillaryism was Bill Clinton,” he wrote. “Rather than do that — the way in Cleveland [Newt] Gingrich shaped Trump’s various barstool eruptions into a semi-coherent program of national populism — Bill gave a long chronological account of a passionate liberal’s social activism … [A]t the end you had to ask: Is that all there is?”
National polls show Trump effectively tied with Hillary Clinton, but some other polls that focus on swing states show Clinton with a significant lead.
But Krauthammer said at this point, after the DNC, which many in the media heralded as a great success for Clinton, it is unclear who has emerged as the front-runner.
“In this crazy election year, there are no straight-line projections,” he said. “As Clinton leaves Philadelphia, her lifelong drive for the ultimate prize is perilously close to a coin flip.”
