With just weeks to go until the official Election Day, communication surrounding political scandals litters almost every day-to-day conversation. After the lewd Trump video was released here, his supporters have made every attempt possible to further taint Clinton’s name in media. The controversy of deleted e-mails has clearly not carried them as far as they had hoped. As a result, there are many stories with different amounts of truth-value circulating all platforms of social media. If we are learning anything about Trump and his supporters it is that they would never go down without a fight. They are having to work with new story lines in hopes to change not only the polls to favor Trump, but the election itself.
Communication about scandals concerning Hillary Clinton has surfaced through many platforms including word of mouth, social media, and broadcast television. This rhetoric that further promotes her as untrustworthy is what many Trump supporters have turned to in order to influence polls and on the fence voters. They are using every resource they can to frame her in a way that she looks untrustworthy in order to sway voters to support Trump as the lesser of two evils.
While many of these accusations and controversies may seem weak in comparison to the release of Trump’s “locker room” trash talk, these stories about Clinton’s untrustworthy character are Trump supporter’s last ditch attempt to convince voters through communication tactics that Clinton is not the right candidate for the position of president. Because Trump is behind in the polls and lacks official surrogates, it is his fanatic followers to make an attempt to rally the nation to support their non traditional leader.
I enjoyed reading your post! You had a strong introduction which caught and held my attention all the way through. I like how you continued to mention concepts we have talked about in class such as Hillary Clinton being untrustworthy and how Trump supporters see him as the “lesser of two evils.” There was a good incorporation of that along with hyperlinking to your sources. I also liked the cartoon about Clinton, it was placed strategically, and was very funny when I saw what you said in the paragraph next to it. Lastly, I like your consistent argument of how his supporters are now acting as his surrogates and doing things to undermine his wrong-doings and trying to put Hillary Clinton in a bad light. Overall, great job!