Never is a hundred years would you expect Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta, to accept any responsibility for her defeat. In this interview that is what you get. FBI Director James Comey and Wikileaks are not the focus of the blame. The Electoral College is not blamed as an outmoded system. If they had campaign differently and not fooled themselves, this could be an awful time for conservatives.
As Written By Phillip Stucky for the Daily Caller:
Former advisor to the Clinton campaign John Podesta acknowledged that the campaign is directly responsible for losing the election to President Donald Trump in November in an interview published early Monday.
The admission is a drastic change from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s remarks, in which she blames former FBI Director James Comey’s decision to re-open the investigation into her private email server in the final days of the election for her loss, according to the interview in Politico.
“We bear responsibility and it’s a great burden and I feel it every day,” Podesta said about his role in the race. “I mean, we lost this election; we won the popular vote by 3 million votes, but we lost the Electoral College and lost the election to Donald Trump. So, we have a burden of his having the keys to the White House, and you know, codes to the nuclear football.”
Clinton asserted multiple times that the outcome of the election would have been different had Comey not made the announcement when he did…….
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