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Clinton: Being a Capitalist Probably Hurt Me in 2016 Because So Many Democrats Are Socialists BY: David Rutz May 2, 2018 5:14 pm Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that being a capitalist probably hurt her cause in 2016 because so many Democrats in the party today are socialists. Her interviewer at the Shared Values Leadership Summit quipped Clinton might have been the first presidential candidate since World War II who had to stand up and announce she was a capitalist. "Did it hurt you?" he asked. "Probably," Clinton said. "It's hard to know, but if you're in the Iowa caucuses and...

Hillary Clinton took some more jabs at the media on Sunday, blaming negative coverage for playing a role in her loss in 2016. Clinton made her comments at the Pen America World Voices Festival and said that during her campaign, "the mainstream political coverage was influenced by the right-wing media ecosystem." She pointed to a "false equivalency" in the media's coverage, originally noted by Harvard University professor Thomas Patterson. Clinton also said that negative news imparted by election coverage "has had a leveling effect that opens the doors to charlatans."(snip) Clinton also said that media coverage has been more "straightforward"...

Hillary Clinton, in her campaign post-mortem released Tuesday, tore into women who didn't vote for her failed presidential candidacy in November and regretted it, saying "these people were looking for absolution that I just couldn't give." Clinton's book, What Happened, is an angry account of how she lost to President Trump in November. Among the multitude of people/countries/events she blames for her defeat are young women who didn't vote for her.