Hillary Clinton returned to the campaign trail on Thursday following a bout of pneumonia.
In an effort to reassure supporters, the campaign played James Brown‘s iconic song “I Feel Good” during a stop in Greensboro, North Carolina.
It was supposed to be a humorous way to address her recent health scare, after nearly fainting at a 9/11 ceremony in New York City on Sunday.
Only one problem with that.
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We’re glad she’s feeling better — but someone should tell her campaign to find another catchy song. This one’s not helping.
Watch the James Brown flub in the video above.
Hillary Clinton's 5 Best Donald Trump Attack Lines (Photos)
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Hillary Clinton has spent the last week criticizing Donald Trump, and we asked experts which of her attack lines might land with voters.
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5. "So let's take a look at what he has done. He's written a lot of books about business -- they all seem to end at Chapter 11," Clinton said in a speech Monday, drawing huge applause from her supporters.
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Politico national politics reporter Eli Stokols told TheWrap that this is a crafty approach, but it could get old.
“It’s the kind of line that is good the first time because it has a ring to it, it’s kind of clever and she’s sort of saying something with a wink and a nod,” Stokols Said.
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“She’s going to make to is to redefine him not as a private entrepreneurial success, but as more of a poster child for some of the bad business excesses. It’s a really interesting strategy,” University of Southern California clinical professor of communications Gordon Stables told TheWrap.
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4. “Just like he shouldn’t have his finger on the button, he shouldn’t have his hands on our economy,” Clinton said referring to Trump’s foreign policy ideas and his economic proposals.
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“It’s about his character… she obviously wanted to highlight that there is something about his disposition or his temperament that basically says, ‘he doesn’t have the patience or wisdom or character to occupy the kind of crisis in the White House,’” Stables said.
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3. “I had my researchers and my speech writers send me information” on Trump “and then I’d say, ‘Really? He really said that?’ And they’d send me all the background and the video clip,” Clinton said.
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“I actually thought that was the most effective thing that you heard from her in terms of articulating this, because it personalizes it, it conveys that she’s someone who is a real person,” Stokols said. "It’s something that some voters will be able to relate to personally and it seemed convincing.”
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2. "I have this old-fashioned idea that if you're running for president, you should say what you want to do and how you'll get it done”
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Stables feels that she could be looking to reach Bernie Sanders supporters that still feel frustrated.
“There are voters with a different economic critique… there is something they don’t like with the way Trump did business and she’s going directly at it,” he said.
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1. "The Chamber of Commerce and labor unions, Mitt Romney and Elizabeth Warren, economists on the right and the left and the center, all agree: Trump would throw us back into recession," Clinton said.
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“Clinton is defining the campaign on her terms… she’s positioning herself to make the argument she’s going to make in November. Trump is still fighting to define and differentiate what to say. He ran a very smart campaign to defeat the other Republican primary competitors,” Stables said.
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Hillary Clinton has spent the last week criticizing Donald Trump, and we asked experts which of her attack lines might land with voters.
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