The team agreed that Mike Nellis, her top digital strategist, would be given a budget to try to expand her small donor base, buying ads on sites like Facebook to mine new supporters.
Bruce S. Raynor, president of Unite Here, said, "That Clinton's chief strategist would be working hand in hand with the government of Colombia and the Bush administration, while candidate Clinton says she opposes the agreement, is truly incredible, even by today's crazy standards".
Ed Miliband hailed the appointment as "excellent news" and predicted the strategist would be a "huge asset to our campaign as we work to show the British people how we can change our country for the better".
Scarborough praised Murphy as someone who would help the GOP "get the middle of America back," and speculated that the strategist would be "hounded for the rest of his political life by extreme members of the NRA".
The purpose, Indian military strategists say, would be to avoid the extended period of mobilization for war that allows American and British diplomats to intervene and negotiate for restraint.
As both the Bush and Gore campaigns shifted their sights to the November elections, their supporters were devising ways to raise what strategists say would be a record amount of soft money.
Having Mr. Ryan take the Medicare fight to Florida, a crucial battleground state that Mr. Obama won in 2008, represented an effort by Mitt Romney's campaign to turn what many strategists predicted would be the ticket's Achilles' heel — Mr. Ryan's detailed and aggressive budget cuts — into an asset.
But if I were a Democratic strategist, I would be worried that they're not really quite yet in reach.
He added that he hoped that former Trump administration chief strategist Steve Bannon would be marginalized in that process.
The point of such a campaign, one strategist said, would be to provide voters with a different, nonthreatening view of Republicans, so that the party is not wholly defined by Mr. Trump's day-to-day pronouncements.
