Former Rep. Michael Patrick Flanagan tells Newsmax TV that Hillary Clinton is an "atrocious person" who "hates everybody" and is in "big trouble" in her bid to conquer the White House.
"I think she really dislikes huge slots of the American public. She has regarded Republicans as her only enemy. She said that out loud. Half the nation – you're my enemy," Flanagan said Monday to J.D. Hayworth on "America Talks Live."
"She talks about the 'deplorables' [supporting Donald Trump] — a quarter of the nation, you're horrible people. Now [she's] trying to sympathize with Bernie Sanders' people, she says you're a barista, you live in a basement, you have a sad life, join me and I'll make it better.
"It's unbelievable how much she hates everybody. There's nobody on her happy list. The Secret Service broke their longstanding rule by never talking about the first family when they came out to talk about what an atrocious person she is . . . This woman likes nobody and that's the story."
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Flanagan, an Illinois Republican who now heads Flanagan Consulting, a Washington, D.C. lobbying firm, adds that the election is Trump's to lose.
"She has a rock solid 43 percent, 43 to 45 depending on what poll. It's unmovable, it's unchangeable, never any lower, never any higher," Flanagan told Hayworth.
"As long as Trump can finish above 43 to 45 [percent], he's going to win this election because she can't move an inch. In a two-way race, the votes go back and forth between the candidates.
"This is a four-way race and it's not going back and forth between her and him. She's in big trouble unless she can keep him underwater and his job is to rise above, be good, be smart, be fast and be likeable and be vote-forable."
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