Posted on 11/19/2017 6:53:53 AM PST by PROCON
In an exclusive interview with Mother Jones, Clinton says Russian interference and GOP voter suppression efforts may have cost her the presidency.
A year after her defeat by Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton says “there are lots of questions about its legitimacy” due to Russian interference and widespread voter suppression efforts.
In an interview with Mother Jones in downtown Manhattan, Clinton said Russian meddling in the election “was one of the major contributors to the outcome.” The Russians used “weaponized false information,” she said, in “a very successful disinformation campaign” that “wasn’t just influencing voters—it was determining the outcome.”
Republican efforts to make it harder to vote—through measures such as voter ID laws, shortened early voting periods, and new obstacles to registration—likewise “contributed to the outcome,” Clinton said. These moves received far less attention than Russian interference but arguably had a more demonstrable impact on the election result. According to an MIT study, more than 1 million people did not vote in 2016 because they encountered problems registering or at the polls. Clinton lost the election by a total of 78,000 votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
“In a couple of places, most notably Wisconsin, I think it had a dramatic impact on the outcome,” Clinton said of voter suppression.
Wisconsin’s new voter ID law required a Wisconsin driver’s license or one of several other types of ID to cast a ballot. It blocked or deterred up to 23,000 people from voting in reliably Democratic Milwaukee and Madison, and potentially 45,000 people statewide, according to a University of Wisconsin study. Clinton lost the state by fewer than 23,000 votes. African Americans, who overwhelmingly supported Clinton, were more than three times as likely as whites not to vote because of the law.
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“Didn’t Hillary say that if Trump questioned the legitimacy of the election, he was attacking Democracy itself and endangering the political system of the United States?”
Yea, but that was only for him. Leftists can’t live without double standards. If it weren’t for them they wouldn’t have any standards at all.
L
“I.D.s are required of every citizen of India
“Democrats, who fear that requiring voters to present photo identification will disenfranchise minorities, students and seniors.”......that is hogwash!”
Well, up here in the Great White North, we’ve required photo ID for voting for years, and that still did not keep the clown who’s now our PM from being elected, lol. Maybe Hillary is just jealous of Justin’s looks.
Patience...
This evil bitch never said one damn thing against Obama’s weaponized use of the IRS to suppress conservative groups in the 2010 and 2012 election cycles.
Damn her to Hell for her wickedness and tainted finger pointing. Point it at yourself, for eternity. Shameless.
She Still Persists. (and persisting isn’t always a good thing)
>>Didn’t Hillary say that if Trump questioned the legitimacy of the election, he was attacking Democracy itself and endangering the political system of the United States?
Stalinists lie. Always
Just as with your income (tax cuts), you shouldn’t be given the right to vote.
“you’re just gonna waste it anyway!”
Just think what may have happened if Kalifornia had voter ID.
Oh nevermind, what was I thinking.
she came out and said the loss hurt, but she was moving past it. but ever since then she keeps talking about it. she just can’t stop lying to the public and making excuse after excuse for her failures.
The b*tch is crazy.
Million of illegals voting for this scum, and the evil witch still lost.
Plus the Soros voting machines made in England which flipped Trump votes to Clinton when a straight down line Republican ticket was chosen by the voter.....multiple votes....RATS registering in the names of celebrities, living and dead, and voting numerous times, etc.
Hypocritical, considering the emphasis during the debates she [and the moderators/reporters/commentators] put on accepting the results of the election.
That was fine when she thought she had it in the bag and tried to entrap Candidate Trump into claiming he would not accept the results.
She has been whining and moaning and complaining for nearly a year now. Of course, her loss is still everyones’ and everythings’ fault but hers.
I would suspect that, if focus polls were taken now, she would find her incessant complaining is causing her to lose support. It does seem that many of the Dem officials and donors are through with her.
wow. The linked article in MJ features a “real” story of a lady who couldn’t vote because they had no ID.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/voter-suppression-wisconsin-election-2016/
Coincidentally, the featured voter lost her drivers license just before the election.
Her 2 children, who were voting for the first time, also lost their drivers license a few days before the election.
Most of the incidents show that for whatever reason, people did not have proper ID.
The lady from Illinois wondering why her “Chicago” ID is no good.
No reason was given, why people who had ample time to get proper id, didn’t.
the article seems to mostly blame “DMV”
The statistics are extrapolated from a small sample. they had to somehow, get to 23,000 (which they did) as that was the number Chillary lost by.
note: the article had to update 3 times with clarifications as they got info wrong the first time.
Interviewing with Mother Jones is scraping the bottom of the barrel for Hillary ... she must have used up all her chits with the pseudo-legitimate fake stream media.
What’s next for Hillary? The International Socialist Review?
This is what comes of day drinkin. :-)
“In truth...you were the star money raiser...nothing more”
So that makes Hillary the Number one Hooker in the country.
IMHO, there are many MORE questions about Hillary’s “sanity”.
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