Politics as usual

The best way to run a campaign is to go negative.  And the best way to do that is to highlight something said or done in the past:



Miller knows he's up against a well-oiled machine on the pro-Hillary side,
comprised of Ready for Hillary, Priorities USA and Correct The Record,
an offshoot of American Bridge, the opposition research outfit founded
by Clinton ally David Brock. Miller speaks almost reverentially of the
Democratic opposition output that thoroughly outperformed the
Republicans in 2012.



To that end, America Rising has been partially modeled after Brock's
American Bridge, which might be best known for uncovering then-Senate
candidate Todd Akin's comments on "legitimate rape" in 2012. A need was
identified in the Republican post-2012 autopsy, which concluded that
the party didn't have opposition research resources to keep up with the
Democrats. America Rising was founded by Matt Rhoades, a former campaign
manager for Mitt Romney. He was joined by Miller and Joe Pounder, who
were both working at the Republican National Committee.



Now the original and its knockoff are both angling to set the early
scene for 2016. American Bridge is tracking each of the potential GOP
candidates, while America Rising is building a dossier on the Clintons.
Correct The Record, in turn, is monitoring the attacks that Miller and
company launch against Hillary Clinton.  "That's a campaign that they're running right now. They're trying to
avoid the accountability that comes with being a candidate," Miller
said. "We're certainly not scared of the Clinton machine. but what we
are conscious of is the need to build something that can counter it."



That effort includes their staff member on the ground in Arkansas as
well as employees in their headquarters in Arlington, Va. They have a
video team that pours through old Clinton footage, a research team on
the analog paper trail and one person dedicated to watching her
appearances on the speaking circuit. And when the midterms are over in
November, more of America Rising's resources will likely go toward the
anti-Hillary campaign.





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