[caption id=”attachment_148794″ align=”aligncenter” width=”4083″]Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a campaign stop in Baton Rouge, La., Monday, Sept. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Jonathan Bachman)
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The three Republican presidential candidates Hillary Clinton is concerned with do not include the current three frontrunners Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina or Ben Carson.
With Scott Walker out of the race, the group viewed as “serious contenders” by Clinton campaign strategists is down to Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and John Kasich, Politico reported Tuesday.
Despite Carly Fiorina’s recent surge in the polls following her breakout debate performance, the Clinton camp is not impressed with the former Hewlett Packard CEO.
Several Democratic strategists told Politico that even if Fiorina makes it to the top of the polls, she would be easy to get rid of using the same tactics California Sen. Barbara Boxer used to beat her in 2010.
One of Boxer’s campaign ads attacked Fiorinia for laying off 30,000 workers as the CEO of HP and outsourcing jobs to China mentioning, “while Californians lost their jobs, Fiorinia tripled her salary, bought a million-dollar yacht and five corporate jets.”
Politico noted that Jim Margolis, who made Boxer’s ads against Fiorina in 2010, is now Clinton’s lead ad-maker.
Rubio and Bush are two establishment candidates who are seen by many strategists as having a decent shot at winning the general election. Kasich, on the other hand, seems like an unlikely threat to Clinton and has been unable to break even 3 percent in the polls.
However, there are some signs that Kasich might turn out to be a very electable candidate.
In a New York Times opinion column, Frank Bruni pointed out that as the governor of Ohio who won reelection last year with 64 percent of the vote, Kasich would be able to easily carry the battleground state in a presidential election.
Kasich has also shown himself to be independent-minded on immigration and some social issues.
A Public Policy Polling report in New Hampshire actually had him beating Clinton by two points in a hypothetical election, which no other candidate has been able to achieve.
