This Hillary Clinton campaign video came out on September the
23rd 2016. Although it is short at only 30 seconds long, I believe
that it is one of her strongest campaign videos and seeing as half of eligible voters are women, the question of do they want Donald Trump to be their president when he says disgusting things about women could win her the election.
The video shows young American girls looking at themselves
in mirrors whilst in the background a selection of Donald Trump’s misogynistic
comments. At the beginning of the video Hillary Clinton is shown hugging a
young girl, implying that she stands with women against discrimination and
bigotry. The video ends with a message saying ‘Is this the president we want
for our daughters?’. The fact that throughout the whole video, the only audio played is from Trump himself is extremely powerful as Clinton does not even have to say anything about herself for the viewer to realise that they should not be voting for Trump.
This campaign video relies on the fact that young women and
parents of daughters in America would obviously not want women to be treated in
the way that Trump treats them. It is a powerful message because it speaks to a
huge group of voters.
The fact that Clinton has more or less a good track record when it comes to advocacy of women's rights also helps her, especially as she is running against Trump who acts in such an appalling way. The recent leaked video of Trump making sexist comments also improves Hillary Clinton's chances in the election because, I would assume, any rational person who had heard his 'locker room talk' would not vote for him.
It is rumored however that in the past, Hillary has silenced women who Bill Clinton has harassed and had affairs with so that it does not look bad for her. If true then the whole basis of this video that she stands with women could be questionable.
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