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Might have cheered Trump? WikiLeaks has an email attachment with Hillary/DNC's strategy on GOP contenders[1] where they state their strategy of "elevating" certain candidates to push "more established candidates to the right". Additionally they want to make it seem that these more "extreme" candidates represent the mainstream of the Republican Party.

"There are two ways to approach the strategies mentioned above. The first is to use the field as a whole to inflict damage on itself similar to what happened to Mitt Romney in 2012. The variety of candidates is a positive here, and many of the lesser known can serve as a cudgel to move the more established candidates further to the right. In this scenario, we don’t want to marginalize the more extreme candidates, but make them more “Pied Piper” candidates who actually represent the mainstream of the Republican Party. Pied Piper candidates include, but aren’t limited to: • Ted Cruz • Donald Trump • Ben Carson We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to them seriously."

Oops.

[1] https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1120