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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

More excuses as to why Hillary did not win in 2016.

The all pervasive “They” are the reason “They” are racists, Islamophobes, stupid, deplorables, irredeemables, mysogynists, etc. When in actuality, “They” were sick of the lies, the atheistic attacks on religious sensibilities, the boorish, elitist superiority that the East and West coasts acted out their disdain for the fly-over country. Heaven forbid that farmers, small business owners, church-goers, NRA members, etc would dare to think anything other than the intellectuals in media and academia.


81 posted on 04/20/2018 10:46:02 AM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Are they about to announce the Charges against Hillary ,sure sounds like it ,LOL


82 posted on 04/20/2018 10:46:29 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She is not only a “congenital liar” (Wm. Safire, NY Times), she is also a compulsive liar. She views herself in the center of world events, a historical figure who must forever market her place in history to a public who is growing weary of being reminded of her.


83 posted on 04/20/2018 10:47:03 AM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine and education.)
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To: SandRat

Comparing Hillary to Camilla is really an insult to Camilla.


84 posted on 04/20/2018 10:48:19 AM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’ll bet Chelsea is glad she has her own family and does not have to listen to her mother’s election whining every day.
If Bill Clinton resides in the same place as his wife (doubtful) the home is likely big enough to where they don’t have to share the same suite or even the same bed if not inclined.


85 posted on 04/20/2018 10:48:54 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: teletech

I heard it was on their honeymoon, too.


86 posted on 04/20/2018 10:49:34 AM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: bramps

lmao


87 posted on 04/20/2018 10:50:27 AM PDT by AAABEST
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Damn the People.......


88 posted on 04/20/2018 10:54:52 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: Huskrrrr
I never get tired of seeing those photos.

My favourite is the video of Billy boy jumping up and down like a two year old....

89 posted on 04/20/2018 10:55:12 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: Balding_Eagle

She was probably so drunk and disheveled her staff must’ve told her not to go out and concede, even if she had wanted to.


90 posted on 04/20/2018 10:55:40 AM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I actually read the entire article as well as the comments that follow. It is breathlessly amazing that the respondents STILL imagine that Hillary's loss is a result of the Trump campaign's collusion with Russia. 18 months later, the election was stolen from her by mysterious forces of misogyny and anti-liberalism.
91 posted on 04/20/2018 10:56:21 AM PDT by T. Rustin Noone (the angels wanna wear my red shoes......)
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To: The people have spoken

Yeah, I’m not sure she means the voters - more likely the fraudsters deliberately not committing enough fraud.


92 posted on 04/20/2018 10:56:39 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: DoughtyOne

You forgot - People who will not buy her books.


93 posted on 04/20/2018 10:59:05 AM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: mom.mom

“She miscalculated the number of fraud votes she needed to win.”

Absolutely correct! You can bet “they” are honing their skills so that’ll never happen again. It’ll be cheating on steroids this November and November 2020.


94 posted on 04/20/2018 10:59:58 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: 4Liberty

Thank you Joan!


95 posted on 04/20/2018 11:01:24 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Lou L

“her goal now is to make these would-be woman voters feel remorseful”

The only thing I’m remorseful about is that we let her run in the first place.

Bye-bye H-> .. And if you should run again, we won’t let you be president again!


96 posted on 04/20/2018 11:04:14 AM PDT by Heart of Georgia (truth will trump their lies)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Thank you so much for posting this article. The schadenfreude is particularly enjoyable; the revelations of who our enemies think they are (Chelsea gets a private plane because she’s not an everyday American); who they think we are, etc., are all just such a delight to read. And if you hadn’t posted this I wouldn’t have seen it, as I no longer read the New York Times except when I want to force myself to see how the enemies of civilization are portraying something.

Wonderful.

Oh — one other thing: to maximize the enjoyment, read the comments!


97 posted on 04/20/2018 11:04:32 AM PDT by JOHN ADAMS
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

98 posted on 04/20/2018 11:04:32 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: gr8eman

The article isn’t bad. She said it wasn’t the Russians who cancelled the rallies in Wisconsin.


99 posted on 04/20/2018 11:06:14 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: seamusnh

“The best thing that Donald Trump has ever done is save the country from a Hilary Clinton presidency...”

Not only did he knock out the kooky klinton klan, but also burned the bushes. Simply for that he should be on mount fushmore


100 posted on 04/20/2018 11:07:27 AM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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