Media Matters
Clinton Is Content Letting Trump Dominate News Cycles
The presumptive Democratic nominee's advisers are betting that Trump will show there is such a thing as bad publicity.
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Hillary Clinton is getting trounced by Donald Trump when it comes to sheer volume of media coverage, and that's just fine with her.
The presumptive Democratic nominee and her advisers are betting that when it come to Trump, there is such a thing as bad publicity. Their theory is that the wall-to-wall attention Trump has received, often when creating controversy, has driven his unfavorable ratings to an all-time high for a major-party presidential candidate—66 percent in a Bloomberg Politics poll last week and 70 percent in a recent Washington Post/ABC News survey.