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Name: What Happened
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Author: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Learn what went wrong with Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign

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What’s in it for me? Learn what went wrong with Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.

When Hillary Clinton announced her 2016 presidential campaign in April 2015, Democrats across the United States were ecstatic. Now she could finish what she had begun in 2008 when she had lost the Democratic Party nomination to Barack Obama.

From the get-go, Clinton’s campaign was a well-oiled machine. But as the election day approached, and Donald Trump unexpectedly won the Republican Party nomination, the cracks started to show. In comparison to Trump and Bernie Sanders, Clinton was perceived as aloof and impersonal by many. And what exactly was her message?

Despite these issues, most polls had her as a clear winner until the very end. So what happened? These blinks offer a detailed analysis of Clinton’s campaign and show the forces and circumstances that eventually brought it down.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

how Russian hackers helped Trump win the election;
what George W. Bush thought of Trump’s inauguration speech; and
Clinton’s advice to anyone who has lost hope in politics.

Election night led to a period of recuperation and trying to resist becoming cynical.

November 9, 2016 is a day that Hillary Rodham Clinton won’t soon forget.

For the most part everyone went into the day feeling pretty upbeat, but by 1:00 a.m., events had taken a bad turn. It all came down to three states: Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Then the final nail in the coffin came at 1:35 a.m. when the Associated Press called Pennsylvania for Trump.

Having to call Trump to congratulate him on his win was tough, but perhaps even tougher was calling President Barack Obama to apologize for letting him down. Clinton’s throat tightened as she passed on those words, but Obama was gracious as always. He told her that she had nothing to feel bad about, and that life after the election would go on.

The key to coping with defeat, Clinton learned, is not to turn cynical. It’s also important not to isolate yourself and let friends provide some comfort and reassurance.

This helped a great deal as she heard from friends who told her how motivated they were to take action after the disappointing results. This helped prevent her from going dark.

She did spend a day lying low, but after that it was back to business, and the first job was signing her thank-you letters to her 4,400 campaign staffers and to make sure they got paid and were getting their health insurance until the end of the year.

Another great way to keep the cynicism at bay is to have something like an Irish wake, where sadness is faced with celebration, as Clinton did by hosting a post-election staff party. As a friend advised her: watching the first season of Friday Night Lights with a glass of good chardonnay isn’t a bad remedy, either.

Clinton did her fair share of fuming, but she made sure her anger fuelled her, not overtook her. She also took a lot of long walks with Bill to talk it over and figure out what happened.

To get to the bottom of this, let's start at the beginning . . .

Clinton had a good, unselfish reason for launching her campaign.

A lot of people have opinions about what went wrong with Clinton’s campaign, and one common suggestion is that her campaign didn’t do a good job of telling people why she was running for president. Some people have said that it felt like Clinton wanted to be president because she felt entitled.

To set the record straight: Clinton didn’t have any self-serving or power-hungry ambitions for the presidency, and she certainly never felt it was inevitable she would attain it.

It’s not easy being a woman in politics, but there are some rewards.

Clinton never wanted to make her gender the focus of her campaign. She’s well aware that her story of being a woman who has managed to be successful in a male-dominated profession doesn’t sit well with everyone.

Whether people like it or not, politics is rife with sexism and misogyny.

One of Clinton’s biggest motivations was to take on the gun lobby.

There are some political forces against which most politicians are afraid to stand, no matter how high their office. The National Rifle Association (NRA) is one such force.

After spending time with the Mothers of the Movement, a group of African American women whose children had been killed by police or gun violence, and watching as seemingly endless mass shootings took place in America, Hillary Rodham Clinton was determined not to bow down to the NRA.

Through her experiences in 2016, Clinton has learned the importance of lofty goals.

One of the differences between Clinton and Bernie Sanders was how they dealt with the details of their policies. Bernie Sanders wanted to make college education free for every US citizen, even though the details of such a plan were unclear, including how much it was going to cost the middle class in raised taxes.

This is the difference between idealism and realism. Clinton always felt it was of great importance to have realistic plans that could be enacted tomorrow, even if they aren’t as exciting as free college.

Clinton was determined to help those who didn’t vote for her, especially in Michigan and West Virginia.

Another regret that Clinton has from her 2016 campaign was saying the words, “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” Sounds pretty harsh, right? And the press, especially Fox News, repeated those words on an endless loop.

While Clinton regrets putting those words in that exact order, the quote has been taken out of context and twisted to imply the exact opposite of the message she was giving. As a result, when Clinton went to visit the people of West Virginia and those in Appalachia, she was met by angry protesters. But these were people she was intent on helping, even if they weren’t going to vote for her.

Clinton had great difficulty getting her message heard over the obsession with her emails.

So what happened? Why did she lose? It’s a question Clinton returns to often, and one of the answers that keeps coming back is “those damn emails”.

Choosing to use her private email account during her time as Secretary of State is at the top of Clinton’s list of regrets.

Having to compete with Trump was difficult enough, but dealing with Russian influence was worse.

Clinton is happy that many of the government’s top officials spoke up on her behalf during the email scandal. They helped to clarify that using a private account isn’t a crime nor a threat to national security.

These are facts – something for which Trump has shown little concern. And since there’s never been a presidential nominee with so little regard for facts, it made campaigning against him an exceedingly frustrating and difficult experience.

The most damaging blow to the campaign was the unprecedented influence of the FBI director.

Here’s an interesting fact: The CIA and FBI were well aware of a potential Russian cyberattack by at least August 2016, three months before the election.

However, while the CIA sounded the alarms, the FBI dragged their feet. In fact, it wasn’t until after the election that the FBI admitted that Russia had helped Trump.

The 2016 election left much to consider and investigate, but US citizens need to move forward and stay involved.

So what’s next? Well, like many, Clinton is eager to discover the full extent of what happened during the election. Astonishing things are still being uncovered, and Clinton’s interest in these details is far from self-centered. If anyone is to avoid another attack on the democratic process, it’s important to understand exactly what occurred.

While the investigation into what Russia and Trump’s campaign team did is ongoing, there are many confirmed facts to consider.

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What Happened (2017) is the story of the woman at the center of one of the craziest elections the United States has ever seen: the 2016 presidential election. This is Hillary Rodham Clinton’s account of her experience facing, and eventually losing to, Donald Trump – an opponent like no other – and the road that led her to this historic election.

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Über den Autor

Hillary Rodham Clinton has had a remarkable career in public service. She became the first First Lady still in the White House to be elected to a public office when she was voted New York’s first female senator in 2001. She went on to become the first woman to win the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Clinton’s other books include It Takes a Village and her two previous memoirs, Living History and Hard Choices.

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