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‘They Were Never Going to Let Me Be President’
New York Times ^ | April 20, 2018 | By AMY CHOZICK

Posted on 04/20/2018 10:05:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Subtitle: Covering Hillary Clinton’s campaign from before it started to the very last moment.

Things were already looking bad when Chelsea Clinton popped the Champagne. It was just after 9 p.m. on election night and she was having her hair and makeup done in the family’s suite at the Peninsula hotel. She stopped to pour what somebody told me was Veuve Clicquot into everyone’s glasses, figuring that in a couple of hours Donald Trump’s run of early victories in red states (West Virginia, Oklahoma, Alabama) would end and the map would turn back in her mom’s favor.

Three hours later, the Rust Belt was awash in red, and somebody had to tell Hillary Clinton.

Robby Mook, the drained and deflated campaign manager, told his boss she was going to lose. She didn’t seem all that surprised.

“I knew it. I knew this would happen to me,” she said, now within a couple of inches of Mr. Mook’s ashen face. “They were never going to let me be president.”

In July 2013, Jill Abramson, the former executive editor of The New York Times, put me on the “Hillary beat” ahead of the 2016 election. It was 649 days before Mrs. Clinton would announce she was running for president again, 1,226 days before she would lose to Mr. Trump.

Every major life decision in my 20s and 30s — when to get married, where to buy an apartment, whether to freeze my eggs until after the election — had revolved around a single looming question: What about Hillary Clinton?

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amychozick; antitrump; chasinghillary; crooked; election2016; hillary; hillary2016; hillaryexcuses; hillarylost; juststfu; loser; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; sycophant; thebeast; whiner
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“They were never going to let me be president.”

"They"? Well, "they" isn't the Democratic Party since, other than a few Berniebots, they rolled out the red carpet and the rose petal strewn path for her - primary results be damned.

"They" aren't the press since they had their noses so far up Hillary's butt that the only thing you can still see a year and a half later are their heels.

"They" aren't the Republican Party since they were setting up an election with all the fight of Obama against Romney.

I guess the only "They" remaining to prevent Hillary from becoming president were Donald Trump and the American people. And thank God they were there to do it.

61 posted on 04/20/2018 10:32:29 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I can't tell if we live in an Erostocracy (rule by sex) or an Eristocracy (rule by strife and chaos))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Thank heaven “they” didn’t let that evil lying beeetch get anywhere near our White House! “They,” whoever they may be, have our deepest gratitude


62 posted on 04/20/2018 10:33:14 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: Cecily

Really!

Or else “they” will shut you up..?


63 posted on 04/20/2018 10:33:32 AM PDT by Leep (Make The Swamp Small Again!)
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To: Noumenon

In a way it does.

These losers have no intention to shut up and move on with life...like normal adults would do.


64 posted on 04/20/2018 10:33:44 AM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: Lent
The great conspiracy of ‘they’.

As in "They" killed President Kennedy.

65 posted on 04/20/2018 10:33:55 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The author does have an interesting moment of partial clarity:

“Of course, these outside forces wouldn’t have mattered or weighed so heavily on me, on the country, had Hillary Clinton, her campaign and her longtime aides — the same box of broken toys who’d enabled all of her worst instincts since the 1990s — not let the election get so close in the first place. The Russians, after all, didn’t hack into her calendar and delete the Wisconsin rallies.”

Well, if you ignore the implication at the beginning regarding russian interference.


66 posted on 04/20/2018 10:34:03 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I sincerely hope that Hillary knows how much pleasure she brings to the nation by letting us know
how she wallows in bitter agonoy over her election loss all day, every day, and all night, every night.


67 posted on 04/20/2018 10:34:47 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Winston Churchill On Islam: "No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.”)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The author freezes eggs? Oh. She’s talking about HER eggs.


68 posted on 04/20/2018 10:35:19 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How could they all look so sad on one of the happiest nights in my life?


69 posted on 04/20/2018 10:35:23 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She meant “God was never going to let me be President.”


70 posted on 04/20/2018 10:35:28 AM PDT by robel
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To: robroys woman

Good heavens, this is the funniest article I’ve read in a long while!

It is always amazing to view the insipid mental meanderings of the Hillarybots.


71 posted on 04/20/2018 10:35:47 AM PDT by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We never cared who leaked the DNC emails. We only cared what was in them.


72 posted on 04/20/2018 10:35:47 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Islam is Satans finest work. -)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Typical clinton projectionism


73 posted on 04/20/2018 10:36:21 AM PDT by zeebee
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“I knew it. I knew this would happen to me. They were never going to let me be president.”

Oh puleeeze! She thought it was her turn and her minions would bring it on home.

But she really didn’t campaign, and when she did, she was falling, tripping, slip-sliding away, and basically letting it be known that she would be a third obamao term.


74 posted on 04/20/2018 10:38:11 AM PDT by Heart of Georgia (truth will trump their lies)
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To: DoughtyOne
If Trump had lost one more (than he did) of the last ten states, he would have probably lost the election.

Thankfully this old adage still applies to presidential elections:

Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades...


75 posted on 04/20/2018 10:38:53 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Winston Churchill On Islam: "No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.”)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In other news: Blind squirrel finds nut.

She is right... we never would have let her be President.

However, I far prefer it to be this way, where we might have a chance to both keep our lives and preserve the Republic. Had she won in November 2016, I think many of us might have lost the former and all of us might have lost the latter.


76 posted on 04/20/2018 10:40:28 AM PDT by GCC Catholic (Trump doesn't suffer fools, but fools will suffer Trump. Make America Great Again!)
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To: pgkdan

Yup probably THE happiest day of my life as well.
I still look up and thank GOD almost every day...


77 posted on 04/20/2018 10:40:45 AM PDT by mowowie (uire lab;)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“THEY” = “Everydays”.

aks “the deplorables”


78 posted on 04/20/2018 10:44:16 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Scrumptious Schadenfreude, this is. :)


79 posted on 04/20/2018 10:44:27 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And that is “what happened.” She miscalculated the number of fraud votes she needed to win.

She had no idea how informed, motivated and numerous the theys were.


80 posted on 04/20/2018 10:45:28 AM PDT by mom.mom (...our flag was still there.)
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