July 20, 2016

'Brexit Was a Much Stronger Candidate Than Trump,' Plouffe Says

David Plouffe says success of Brexit does not foreshadow Donald Tump's victory in the U.S. "You can't draw an analogy," says Plouffe, who ran President Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and is now adviser at Uber "Powerful forces" surrounded Brexit debate in U.K., and side opposing Brexit "didn't run a great campaign" Says failure of opponents of Brexit to foresee loss means they'd built a bad electoral model; "if your model really is 14 points off that's a huge miss" There had been no voting l

Source: Bloomberg Politics