After
losing the closely contested US Presidential elections to Donald Trump
recently, Hillary Clinton has finally explained why she fell short.
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton, the former Democratic presidential nominee, has spoken out on why she lost the election.
She blamed Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Director James Comey for her defeat in Tuesday’s presidential election.
According to Reuters, Mrs. Clinton said in a conference call with
her top campaign donors on Saturday that Mr. Trump was able to seize on
both of Mr. Comey’s statements and used them to attack her, according to
two participants on the call. According to the participants who were on the call, Mrs. Clinton
told her supporters on Saturday that her team had drafted a memo that
looked at the changing opinion polls leading up to the election and that
the letter from Mr. Comey proved to be a turning point.
The memo prepared by Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, a copy of which was
seen by Reuters, said voters who decided which candidate to support in
the last week were more likely to support Trump than Clinton.
“In the end, late breaking developments in the race proved one hurdle too many for us to overcome,” the memo concluded. Mrs. Clinton was projected by nearly every national public opinion
poll as the heavy favourite going into the race but Republican Donald
Trump won the election, shocking many throughout the nation and
prompting widespread protests.
Mrs. Clinton has kept a low profile since her defeat after delivering her concession speech on Wednesday morning.
She said Mr. Comey’s decision to go public with the renewed
examination of her email server had caused an erosion of support in the
upper Midwest, according to three people familiar with the call.
Mrs. Clinton lost in Wisconsin, the first time since 1984 that the
state favoured a Republican candidate in a presidential election.
Although the final result in Michigan has still not been tallied,
it is leaning Republican, in a state that last favoured the Republican
nominee in 1988.
Mr. Comey sent a letter to Congress few days before the election
announcing that he was reinstating an investigation into whether Mrs.
Clinton mishandled classified information when she used a private email
server while secretary of state from 2009 to 2012.
The FBI’s director announced a week later that he had reviewed
emails and continued to believe she should not be prosecuted, but the
political damage was already done.
While the second letter cleared her of wrongdoing, Mrs. Clinton
said that reinforced to Trump’s supporters that the system was rigged in
her favour and motivated them to mobilise on the election day.
A spokesperson for the FBI could not immediately be reached for comment.
On the phone call, Dennis Chang, who served as Clinton’s finance
chair, said her campaign and the national party had raised more than
$900 million from more than three million individual donors, according
to the two participants who spoke to Reuters.
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