On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” RealClearPolitics Associate Editor and Columnist A.B. Stoddard argued that Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “can’t defend’ the Obamacare premium hikes and “needs to go back to scaring Republican women, who are never going to vote for Trump, into getting in the car and supporting her, and that’s why she’s using Alicia Machado and all this other stuff.”

Stoddard said, [relevant remarks begin around 3:40] “[T]hese premium hikes have just been devastating. Really, she can’t defend them. He’s been campaigning on them for over a week, in the right places. And it’s going to be a huge issue I think when you look back at the exit polling after the results come in. Hillary Clinton has no choice but to finish this campaign, although she wanted to end on sort of a, give the voters something about me pitch. She can’t. She’s trying to deflect away from the FBI. She’s spending too much time talking about Jim Comey. So she needs to go back to scaring Republican women, who are never going to vote for Trump, into getting in the car and supporting her, and that’s why she’s using Alicia Machado and all this other stuff. … They think it’s the only base play they’ve got.”

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