Hillary Clinton Has A New Excuse For Why She Lost
Hillary Clinton’s list of excuses for why she lost the election keeps getting longer.
The former secretary of state has offered up a litany of scapegoats not named Hillary Clinton for her loss. She has already blamed her loss on “ misogyny ,” former FBI Director James Comey and WikiLeaks . Her aides have blamed “ white supremacy ” and the media . Now, Clinton is adding to the list.
Clinton blamed alleged voter suppression for her loss during an interview with New York magazine published on Friday. Clinton, citing no evidence to support her claims, said that the alleged voter suppression was especially bad in Wisconsin, where low turnout hurt her campaign.
Left unmentioned, however, is the fact that Clinton virtually ignored Wisconsin during the general election. Clinton didn’t set foot in Wisconsin once during her general election campaign, and ran almost no campaign ads until shortly before the election.
Clinton claimed that “what I was doing was working. I would have won had I not been subjected to the unprecedented attacks by Comey and the Russians, aided and abetted by the suppression of the vote, particularly in Wisconsin.”
While searching for explanations after the election, some progressives seized on “voter suppression” — in the form of voter ID laws — as a reason Trump won. Even liberal news sources are having a tough time buying that line of reasoning, however. Reliably liberal fact-checker Snopes ruled the claim “unproven” because there was no evidence to support it, while liberal website Vox flat out rejected it .
Clinton’s blaming of voter suppression doesn’t appear to be an off-the-cuff remark.
The largest pro-Clinton super PAC during the 2016 election, Priorities USA, produced an “analysis” of voter turnout that claimed voter suppression had a “significant impact” on the electoral outcome.
Priorities USA Voter Suppression Memo by Priorities USA Press on Scribd
The super PAC then shared that memo offering cover for Clinton’s loss with left-wing publication The Nation, which accepted the super PAC’s claims uncritically , pushing out the headline, “Wisconsin’s Voter-ID Law Suppressed 200,000 Votes in 2016 (Trump Won by 22,748).”
Now, Clinton is pushing that unsupported claim as yet another reason for why she lost.
“Whoever comes next, this is not going to end,” she complained to NYMag. “Republicans learned that if you suppress votes you win.”
Another left-wing website, Talking Points Memo , noted Clinton’s accusations of voter suppression and piled on, claiming, “Criticism of Wisconsin’s strict voter ID laws has gained steam in recent months after a series of reports on the hundreds of thousands of people in that state who did not have sufficient identification to vote.”
The only source Talking Points Memo linked to to support its accusation was The Nation’s article that regurgitated the Clinton super PAC’s claims.
Former President Barack Obama offered a different explanation during an interview in December: Clinton ignored rural voters.
“Democratic voters are clustered in urban areas and on the coasts so you’ve got a situation where they’re not only entire states but also big chunks of states where — if we’re not showing up — if we’re not in there making an argument, then we’re going to lose,” Obama said. “We can lose badly, and that’s what happened in this election.”
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Reminds me of how Obama whined about Bush for years.
But don't worry.....
New $80M Anti-Trump Network Spearheaded by Soros-Funded Org With Former ACORN Employees
Network will focus on pushing back against voter laws leading up to the 2018 and 2020 elections
Guess Jonathan will have to take old George's place one of these days and it looks like maybe he already has.
December 1, 2012
Soros' Son Boasts of Defeating 7 of 8 Republicans
George Soros’s son sat on a panel that examined the role of money in the first post-Citizens United presidential election and assessed efforts to reduce its influence. Jonathan Soros boasted that Friends of Democracy — the super PAC he co-founded and underwrote with at least $762,000 — defeated seven of eight Republican members of Congress it targeted with ads and mail asserting they were beholden to big special interest money.
Poor Hillary. Whatever it takes to help her sleep at night.
A cup of hemlock before bed will ensure a long restful sleep.
Hillary is a notorious liar and was busted trying to rig the Democratic primary. She had nothing to show for being Secretary of State other than setting the Middle East on fire, lining her pockets, and a scheme to evade the freedom of information act that ended up as a criminal investigation by the FBI. Basically all she offered voters is an alternative to Donald Trump and a continuation of policies like promoting sanctuary cities and gender bending. Now she claims she lost because of misogynistic men when she pandered to female votes based on the fact that she's a woman (and not a man). What gall.
She suppressed the vote herself by stinking to the point that decent people could not hold their nose tight enough to vote for her. Voting for Trump was a nonstarter for many (me included) so the only choice was to stay home or vote for a fringe candidate.
If she's the DNC candidate of choice for 2020, or they run Ellison instead (never Bernie, I bet) Trump will most likely be looking at another 4 years. I'm sure that town in New Brunswick is still looking for American immigrants - giving them the incentive of a home and a job.
But....but...but Hilary did this and Hilary did that..... (as the world crumbles under the leadership of Donald Trump)
Trump has been busy trying to fix the Obama disasters that are the root of the crumbling. The massive debt he is addressing well as the crumbling Obamacare. He is tackling the disability fraudsters and he is repealing the harmful executive orders of the previous administration. Good thing we have him because Hillary would have done nothing but continue with the Democrats plan of destruction so more people will end up hooked on welfare. That is their plan to build their voter base.
Lol. Coming from just about anyone else, I'd assume that was satire.
she lost to Donald trump despite the largest advantage in fundraising in American history and a media that went 100% in the tank for her.
Shes the worst politician in American history. It's no surprise she can't do anything with a modicum of dignity.
She's missing the biggie she had Obama and Bernie on her side. Parading around with those two was the final straw that broke the camel's back.
If you look at all those pictured above with Jonathan Soros and then you think of all the people who are standing in the way of anything the new administration wants to do, it is clear they are the people Americans should fear. Don't fool yourself, Trump may have a terrible personality and many other faults, but they would be standing in the way with anyone else who wasn't part of the Establishment just like they are with Trump.
They've done the same thing forever. Remember it was unpatriotic to raise the National Debt by 4 trillion, but it was perfectly alright to raise it 10 trillion. These people are the puppets of people like George Soros.
She's just trying out new lines of propaganda, looking for one that will stick. The fact that the nation rejected her apparently has unhinged her further.