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by rdtsc 3459 days ago
Level is relative here. But remember DNC candidate had 6 or more multibillion dollar mass media corps actively supporting their candidate, POTUS was campaigning for them, had a top strategy team, support from tech giants, Wall St., huge contributions from countries like Saudi Arabia and so on. A few emails leaked I would say still wasn't a level playing field but it was close?
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"mass media corps actively supporting their candidate"? How? By wasting hours of coverage on irrelevant emails instead of relevant policy issues?

https://shorensteincenter.org/pre-primary-news-coverage-2016...

Look at figure 7, Clinton media coverage 84% negative in tone, twice the ratio as Trump's!

Now compare that to the many millions worth of free coverage that Trump got, because he knew how to exploit the media's lust for controversy.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/10/26/study-confirms-netwo...

100 minutes of Clinton emails vs. 32 minutes of policy issues for all candidates combined - who do you think benefits from that, the candidate with realistic policy proposals, or the one who wants solve all problems by building a wall?