Clinton Aide Says She’d “Rather Lose” Than Win Like Trump

Apparently echoing his boss, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook and others partially blamed Clinton’s loss on Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey revisiting the subject of Clinton’s emails in the campaign’s final days. The players were the dueling forces behind the 2016 presidential election campaign.

Mook blamed Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey for having cost Clinton the election with his vague letter.

Conway responded, “How about it is Hillary Clinton?”. Clinton campaign leaders rejected the notion that Trump was chosen because of his potential to lead on the economy, and they cited the desire for change as the biggest long-term obstacle they had to confront.

“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.

“The idea that the country was not ready for a woman completely undercuts the fact that maybe they weren’t ready for this woman”, Conway said. “I felt she could have done more earlier to put that to rest”.

As is tradition following an election year, the top aides from each candidate’s camp met at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics for a two-day forum to discuss the campaign.

The Clinton staffers pointed to Trump’s decision to bring in Steve Bannon ― who has boasted that his Breitbart News website had become a platform for white nationalists who call themselves the Alt-Right ― as the campaign’s CEO in August. Though the school defended his invitation to a closed-door forum on Wednesday, Bannon cancelled at the last minute, citing scheduling conflicts. Trump has consistently been a proponent of voter fraud conspiracy theories. “That Comey letter had a huge effect”, he said, calling it “probably a game-changer”. In a sense, that was what the election was about – what lengths would the candidates go to to win?

The discussion also touched on fake news.

Mook said the “post-factual” nature of the election also contributed to Clinton’s loss, accusing Breitbart and Bannon of playing a role in disseminating it. She added: “I would rather lose than win the way you guys did”.

Conway then began to criticize the former Democratic nominee for failing to connect with working-class white voters. “I’m trying to figure out who that message was for”.

Conway further said, Clinton’s advisers needed to get on board with the president-elect and move on.

“Well, he’s the presidential elect, so it’s presidential”, Conway said. The high road did not lead to the Oval Office.

‘There will be officials who are in charge of such things in the Trump administration who may look at that again, ‘ Conway said.

That was perhaps a dig aimed in part at Team Clinton’s embrace of Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s multi-state recount efforts, which most observers admit are pointless at best.

Mook, soft-spoken for most of the night, perked up.

The Hillary Clinton campaign, their global-elitist controlled Democrat supporters and Hollywood celebrities are in a state of denial. “They are completely different”.

“It’s hard to say we lost the popular vote, so that means we didn’t do as well”, said Brad Parscale, Trump Digital Director.