On election day 2016, Donald Trump's unfavorability rating among American voters -- not theoretically, but among the people who actually turned out to vote -- was a whopping and unprecedented 60 percent. Hillary Clinton, who'd outspent Trump by roughly a two-to-one margin, lost to him. That was an extraordinary feat, but she somehow managed it. She's been relentlessly blame-storming ever since, despite occasionally insisting that she "takes responsibility" for her loss. Her actions make clear, however, that she doesn't believe that her historic loss is her fault. As Katie, Lauretta and Matt have noted, Mrs. Clinton uncorked a string of bitter excuses for her loss at a forum in India, all of which are familiar by now. Let's walk through them. First, she boasted that she won the cool, forward-thinking parts of America, whereas Trump's "backwards"-looking campaign won him the "middle of the country:"
✔@RNCResearch Bitter Hillary Clinton trashes America’s Heartland, calls states that didn’t vote for her “backwards” https://youtu.be/3KKPpjN5PTc 4:40 PM - Mar 12, 2018
The RNC's tweet alleges that she explicitly called the Heartland "backwards," but that's not accurate. That word was applied to Trump's slogan and ideas. But her implication was quite clear. She juxtaposed the "diverse" and "dynamic" areas of the country that she'd carried with the rest of America, to which Trump supposedly appealed with abject backwardness -- with success. Perhaps it's easier to sniff at millions of people if you never bother to spend any time with them (click that link for yet another pitiful excuse). She also tossed in the stat about GDP, which is an interesting metric for a Democrat to rely upon, given the party's ritual demonizing of success and demagoguery against the very corporations and "millionaires and billionaires" who drive much of the productivity she's touting.
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