I really want this story to be true but...
If she really thought it was in the bag until late in the night why would she have started drinking early enough that she could be inebriated near the end. I personally did not relax until they called WI for Trump.
Of course she did cancel her fireworks display several days prior to the election, indicating that the internal polling was not good for them.
I really need to see video or pictures of the aftermath. Can we stop buying in to all this speculation?
NO!
Had she went forward with the fireworks, the Trumpsters would have celebrated on her explosives.
“If she really thought it was in the bag until late in the night why would she have started drinking early enough that she could be inebriated near the end. “
Remember, you’re seeing the level of detail Fox or CNN or MSNBC decide to show you. She’s seeing up to the minute, precinct by precinct level returns. It’s safe to assume she knew early on that turnout for her was significantly lower than it was for Obama in ‘12 and that spelled real trouble for her.
When 8pm passed and Florida was a virtual tie, she knew she was in trouble because the panhandle is Trump territory and she knew she needed a big lead there to offset it - a lead she didn’t have. You can bet that the light drinking started around then. The booze probably really started flowing around 10pm when she lost Ohio by 9 points.
She was probably fully lit by the time Michigan and Wisconsin came up as possible Trump wins.
There was a story that Hillary and her closest advisors started drinking celebratory champagne at 6 pm. They thought it was in the bag.
Everyone knew she was going to lose and I was in bed by 8:00pm Pacific time, secure that once Florida turned red, we had indeed dodged a 20mm cannon shell
That was a sign that it was this close, and in the discomfort zone so much that it wasn't worth the cost of keeping Zambelli [who rule, btw] or whoever it was floating in the Hudson for steep overtime.