It gets stranger -- the RNC is sending this squirrel around to Hillary's events. She is being tracked by a giant squirrel.
So Hillary gets out of her car and gives the squirrel a copy of her book.
http://time.com/2892094/hillary-clinton-confronts-her-squirrel-stalker/
This all feels like an episode of Veep or a SNL skit waiting to happen. It looks like we are in for a very bizarre presidential campaign.
Bizarre or squirreltastic. Take your pick.
For once, at least, Republicans don't come out of it as complete douchebags. It usually takes a village for that to happen.
Will it help them in any ways? No. Yet they will appear in people's minds as slighly more sympathetic and less annoying than usual.
People like comedy, people like cute, harmless, innocent mascots. This is at least a try, even if a rather bad one.