Hillary Clinton Says She Would Have Won If Not for Comey’s Letter, WikiLeaks

“I’m now back to being an activist citizen and part of the resistance,” Clinton says

Hillary Clinton said she would have won the election if it weren’t for a last-minute interference by FBI Director James Comey and Russia.

“If the election had been on October 27, I would be your president,” she told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour at a Women for Women event in New York on Tuesday.

“It wasn’t a perfect campaign — there is no such thing — but I was on the way to winning until a combination of Jim Comey’s letter on October 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me and got scared off,” she added. “The evidence for that intervening event is, I think, compelling, persuasive, and so we overcame a lot in the campaign.”

Clinton went on to say that she believed misogyny also played a role in her defeat.

“Yes, I do think it played a role. I think other things did as well. Every day that goes by, we find out more about the unprecedented inference, including from a foreign power whose leader is not a member of my fan club,” Clinton said, referring to Vladimir Putin. “It is real, it is very much a part of the landscape, political and socially and economically.”

“If you chart my opponent and his campaign and his statements, they quite coordinate with the goals of that leader, who shall remain nameless, had,” she added.

“Of course, I take absolute personal responsibility,” she said. “I was the candidate. I was the person who was on the ballot. I am very aware of the challenges, the problems, the shortfalls that we had.”

Clinton, who was mostly absent from the public immediately after the election, insisted she was now “part of the resistance,” telling Amanpour: “I’m now back to being an activist citizen.”

 

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