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Clinton Allies Blame Fake Racism For Their Loss
- Key members of the Trump and Clinton presidential campaigns exchanged sharp words at a Harvard University forum Thursday.
- Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook placed the blame for his candidate's defeat on FBI Director James Comey, who sent letters to Congress in the waning days of the campaign.
- Another Clinton failing was in presuming that people who voted Democratic before would do so again, Conway said.
The campaign is over, but the shouting is not.
Key members of the Trump and Clinton presidential campaigns exchanged sharp words at a Harvard University forum Thursday, with Democratic staffers accusing their counterparts of cultivating white supremacists.
“The platform that they gave to white supremacists, to white nationalists, is a very, very important moment in our history,” Clinton campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri told Trump's team.
The charge prompted a furious response from Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway.
“Do you think I ran a campaign where white supremacists had a platform?” Conway shot back.
“You did, Kellyanne. You did,” an emotional Palmieri responded.
The exchange was one of several tense moments during the traditionally cordial post-election review hosted at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Conway was still seething Friday, in an appearance on “Fox & Friends” during which she was asked if the Clinton staffers were “sore losers.”
“I do think some people are stuck in the permanent campaign and not really past the anger, grief and denial stages and into the acceptance stages,” Conway said. “But that's okay, because we won.”
At the event, Conway bristled during a question-and-answer period when someone attending the forum noted the Southern Poverty Law Center had collected reports of nearly 1,000 hate-related incidents from almost every state since the election. She said Trump has called for an end to such incidents, and she labeled the far-left center an “anti-Trump group.”
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Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook placed the blame for his candidate's defeat on FBI Director James Comey, who sent letters to Congress in the waning days of the campaign related to his agency's examination of Clinton's email accounts. Without those letters, Mook said, Clinton would have won.
He called the focus on Clinton's emails during the campaign one of the “most over-reported, overhyped, over-litigated stories in the history of American politics.”
Mook also blamed another set of emails for Clinton's loss, namely the slow release of apparently hacked Democratic messages in the final weeks of the race.
The U.S. government has said Russia was responsible for hacking at least some of the emails released by WikiLeaks, including those from the private account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
“We cannot have foreign aggressors intervening in our elections,” Mook said.
Asked about the reports of Russian-backed hacking, which Russia has dismissed, Conway said, “We just don't know it to be true.”
When the discussion turned to campaign tactics, Conway said one key move that helped Trump was the decision to stop looking at national polls and instead focus on state polls, particularly in swing states.
“When I came onboard [as campaign manager in August], we never did another national poll,” she said.
Conway added that a mistake made by the Clinton campaign was assuming the 2016 electorate would resemble the 2012 electorate, which gave Democratic President Barack Obama a second term, when it was closer to the 2014 midterm electorate, which handed big gains to Republicans in Congress.
She also credited Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Democratic primary challenger, for helping “soften up” Clinton and paving the way for Trump's victory. She said political observers who predicted the race would go to Clinton “ignored the phenomenon known as Bernie Sanders.”
Another key to Trump's win, Conway said, was Clinton herself.
“I said to Mr. Trump, ‘You're running against one of the most joyless presidential candidates in history,'” Conway said. “‘Why don't we find a way to be the happy warrior?'”
Mook conceded that the Clinton campaign failed to perform as well as it should have among groups that were key to Obama's two victories, including suburban women and young voters, some of whom he said were drawn to third-party candidates.
Conway essentially agreed, saying Clinton was unable to hold together the Obama coalition. She said the question wasn't whether voters were ready to elect a woman to the White House but whether they were ready to elect this particular woman.
Another Clinton failing was in presuming that people who voted Democratic before would do so again, Conway said.
But Mook said the Clinton campaign never took a win as a foregone conclusion.
“There were a lot of headwinds in this race,” he said. “We were trying to make history.”
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Racism is only a catch all phrase. Look at the real issues facing this country. The Dems need to get a job and not more hand-outs.
Typical of the left, bleeding heart liberal socialists to blame a Trump victory on racism. They are the real racists, catering their campaign to minorities only. What happened to the rest of the country. Doesn’t anyone else exist?
Her lost candidacy was based on several things:
1) The fraudulent use of the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative to enrich herself
2) Lack of support for the police and Military.
3) Her Rabid support for “illegal” immigration.
4) Support for lucrative Government giveaway programs.
5) Support for continuing obama’s profligate spending.
6) Support for terrorist organizations like BLM.
7) Continuing the Benghazi Lie
8) Deleting 33,000 emails which would have exposed her criminal activity.
I could go on but you get the Drift
How about giving the people a little credit for a change. Just maybe we can read and think for ourselves, maybe we’re not lemming’s to be led off the cliff and maybe we’re realist’s not racist!
Hillary lost because she was corrupt and could not tell the truth if her life depended on it, they don’t call her Crooked Hillary for nothing, she left four men to die in Bengazi
She lost because she lied more than any politition I can remember. Her terrible performance as Secretary of State.Her e-mail scandal. Her personality
I agree in total with this short explanation, but I would add one more thing. Although not tried and convicted, I believe that most folks could figure it out that she was a serial felon, dating back to many years before and continuing to present.
What ever happen to core values. Sore loosers.
If fake racism includes that whenever a white person says something a black person does not like or agree with, or that a white person speaks out against a black persons position on any issue, then the progressives call it racism then yes I believe that helped to take down hillary clinton.
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As a white person I can disagree with another white person and the only kick back I would get is to be told I am incorrect in my position.
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But as a white person if I disagree with a black person or their position on an issue then I am called a racist. Although this only applies to a certain percentage to the black community since there are many rational blacks that do not use the race card on a daily basis.
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What bother me the most is many blacks will never condemn or question other blacks even when there is a preponderance of evidence the black person in question.
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Until the race card is no longer used we will never be a complete nation.
She was not someone that should run for president. Dirty player, above the law, elite lier!
I am a red blooded American believing in life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I also am a God fearing born again Christian. I have had enough of the lies about us clinging to our guns & bibles. That is true and we may be the deplorables in the eyes of the leftists, but we are on a journey to heaven and not Hell. I was raised not to judge others and respect your elders and stay away from those that try and deceive you. You are who you hang with and they can take God out of the schools and country but they cant take the God out of me and the rest out country. If you don’t recognize people that are murderers, thieves, extortionists, and deceivers of the brethren ,you don’t know the truth. Proverbs 16:6 says, By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by fear of the Lord men depart from evil.
The democrat are the real racists !!!!
Why? She lost because she’s a habitual liar, a criminal and a traitor to this country! Cut and dried, it’s that simple.
There is NOTHING wrong with having your interest in your OWN race and culture. All races should promote and help lift their own race and culture. This includes white (Caucasian) people, and they should never apologize or be ashamed of supporting their own race and culture. If you are called a racist for doing so, do not argue with the accuser…just nod and ask where they would like to go now? They want you to defend yourself against their charges instead of proving them wrong with the facts…don’t fall for their old modus operandi.
SHE LIED ABOUT EVERYTHING!
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I hate the bitch because I hate liberals
Hillary lost the election because she didnt do the work. Trump out campaigned her. Next her crrying on Obama’s legacy didnt win any votes either. Many voters are disgusted with the Obama administration.He
What they were calling fake news was largely correct news. Tickled the Old Hide failed!!
HilLIARy lost because she is an arrogant, unlikable, pathological liar who is a lifelong criminal. She thought she did not have to campaign because she believed her own press.PRESIDENT ELECT TRUMP out campaigned her with a better image and a better message. He reached out to the people and the people LOVED HIM! That is why, despite the massive illegal voters, the tens of thousands of college kids that voted twice (once where they are from and once where they go to school), machines that flipped a DJT vote to a HilLIARy vote, and the millions of voting dead, President Elect Trump was able to reach out to more voters and win the election. And thank God he did!
The Clinton Legacy Speaks for itself.
Murdering, Lying, Deceitful, Communist, Socialist, Anti-American, Anti-Christian, Anti-Military (including Veterans), Anti-Followers of the Constitution of the United States. Need I say more???
I could tell at times that she could not remember what she said and she would repeat something different. I don’t think her health is good.
Jul 24, 2016 – Conservative Actor has the Ultimate Meme for Hillary Hiring Disgraced DNC Head … Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton scooped up outgoing …. Hillary Runs Ad Connecting KKK To Trump, Forgets That Her …
Clinton started This in the first place
http://www.youngcons.com/conservative-actor-has-the-ultimate-meme-for-hillary-hiring-disgraced-dnc-head/
She did it to herself.
Clinton Body Bag List
Benghazi – funding those who murdered our Ambassador and others.
Clinton was right there with Obama on this:
CIA Bombshell Reveals What Obama Did to Guarantee ISIS Massive Victories
http://conservativetribune.com/breaking-cia-bombshell/
LOL ONLY in the PERMANENTLY twisted minds of leftists does being fed up with pandering to the BLACK RACISTS of BLACK LIES MATTER equate to “White Supremacy”!
I disagree because there’s nothing fake about racism alive on both sides tho I feel personally blacks are the majority whos inciting constant racial differences since all they ever make reference to is racially motivated including calling themselves niggas . If you are a pessimist you’ll only see negatively and visa versa for optimists. Same with racism. If you dont respect others others will not respect u.
She is looking for any excuse besides herself for losing the election. I switched from long time Dem to Rep because I felt she was a disgrace to the US.