Steve Schmidt, the chief strategist for Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) 2008 presidential run, was on MSNBC's 11th Hour on Monday night, and it was clear he had something to say when he started off attributing "one of the smartest things that anybody has ever said about politics" to David Axelrod, President Obama's 2008 chief strategist. Hillary Clinton, Schmidt said, is "under a relentless assault on her character and on her dignity, and her maintenance of that dignity is part of the test, and I think it prepares and serves her well when the inevitable happens, which is a substantial landslide victory on Nov. 8."
"And I want to be clear about something," Schmidt continued. "This race is over. Now, from a news perspective, I understand we can't say this, but I'm a political analyst, and I can look at the numbers, and I can look at the trajectory. The moment of impact of the Titanic did not signal the denouement of the ship; as you get closer to the moment of sinking, the violence of that act, the physics of it, takes over. But at first, after the strike, the ship didn't barely shutter. And that's the moment of the campaign we're in now." He pointed to the blueing of solid red states like Georgia, Arizona, and Alaska, then he took aim at Donald Trump and the GOP:
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