Krauthammer's Take: Chanting ‘Hillary, Lock Her Up’ Isn’t Going to Attract the Undecided

Charles Krauthammer argues that chants at the Republican convention could come back to haunt the Trump campaign: 

I think execution is slightly over the top, but I would point out that yesterday, during the speech of Christie, a crowd of several thousand people here — we were here — began shouting about Hillary Clinton: “Lock her up.”

Now, I can understand you want to really the base, but if you’re trying to appeal to the 17 Americans remaining who are undecided, that’s not the way you want to go. If you’re going to unite the party and unite the country, which is what people are looking for, that is not a good way to put it.

I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a crowd of this size calling for the other side’s presidential candidate to be jailed. Now, I will agree that some of that chanting was sort of good-natured, over-the-top stuff that was done sort of half-heartedly, but there was some malice in that, and I think that’s one thing — with the execution thing — that we saw in a lot of the Trump rallies.

It’s something the Trump campaign has to work on, to try to diminish or to tame down, because it just looks bad for them.