“What was your response to President Obama and his staff saying, ‘Yeah, that was great, but we’ve done better?'” Earhardt asked, referring to the deal offered by the incoming Trump administration to Carrier to keep 1,000 jobs at an IN plant.
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Conway essentially agreed, saying Clinton was unable to hold together the Obama coalition. Perhaps it was her failure to resonate with white working class voters, her inability to generate excitement among younger non-white voters, or simply a case of political overreach as her campaign put resources into states that she had little chance of winning, like Texas, rather than in must win states like MI or Wisconsin. “Is that statement by President-elect Trump true?” “You did”, another Clinton spokesperson, Karen Finney, argued that “part of what Donald Trump did in this campaign was to mainstream the alt-right”, which is “now part of the mainstream of our politics”.
One of those moments was the hiring of Bannon, the publisher of Breitbart, and an ardent Trump supporter even before he was hired by Mr. Trump to chair his campaign.
“If providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician, I am glad to have lost”, Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri responded. “That is why I asked Jen Palmieri if she would look me in the eye and tell me I ran a campaign that would allow that”. Melia C. Henderson ’19 asked Conway.
“You did, Kellyanne”, said Palmieri. “But that’s okay, because we won”, Conway said.
Conway was sitting right across from her.
Clinton adviser Mandy Grunwald said the Trump campaign had operated in the world of “dark arts”.
“Guys, I can tell you are angry”.
Several staff members from the Clinton campaign accused the Trump team for winning the presidency by appealing to the white supremacist, racist and xenophobic population of America.
Over the course of the two-day conference, the Clinton team attributed their general election loss to a myriad of factors.
Magleby said that points to one of the major problems in polling – figuring out who is actually going to show up and vote. That hurt Clinton particularly among suburban women and younger voters in the final days, they said.
One thing that has been interesting this entire campaign season to watch is that people that say facts are facts, they’re not really facts.
For now, the priority is renewing the President-elect’s bond with the fiercely loyal band of heartland supporters to whom he spoke like no other recent presidential candidate in the campaign.
Want more? Trump has nominated former Goldman-Sachs partner and current hedge fund manager Steve Mnuchin as Secretary of the Treasury, and billionaire Wilbur Ross, who made his fortune “restructuring” companies in the steel and coal industries, as Secretary of Commerce. But Kimball said the election results overall have him reassessing how the craft is practiced.
The Electoral College was put in place to save the American people, to save our country from evil and mischief. They have nothing in common with her?
“He’s been receiving information about the irregularities, and about the illegal votes, especially from sources, officials, like Kris Kobach, as I mentioned”, she said. Trump also gave a pre-taped interview that aired Friday morning on “Fox & Friends”.
Only when he is president and faces a national crisis, or an economic slowdown or some other unexpected political reverse will it become clear whether relying on a comparatively narrow base of support is a liability for Trump. We officially backed Hillary Clinton for president, and we did so because we believed – and still do believe – that Clinton was the most experienced, most qualified candidate in the race.
“Undecided voters didn’t break our way”, Mook said of Election Night. “We think that was because of the Comey letter”.
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Clinton did not have ties to working-class white voters as strong as those of her husband, who had been governor of Arkansas, said political historian Mary Frances Berry of the University of Pennsylvania. If not, they will continue to be viewed by voters as responsible for every failed intervention and foreign policy crisis around the world.
