Posted on 06/25/2018 8:03:45 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Repeat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is heaping more criticism on America's electoral college, this time during an appearance at Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Clinton, who lost the 2016 presidential campaign with 232 electoral votes to President Trump's 306, has previously called for scrapping America's system of electing presidents, instead relying on a direct one-person, one-vote election.
The Democrat was lamenting the power of populism when the subject came up: “Populists can stay in power by mobilizing a fervent base. Now, there are many other lessons like this. Louise mentioned my personal experience with winning 3 million more votes, but still losing. And we will leave discussions of American Electoral College for another day, but Mounk concludes by saying, ‘Turkey also shows that political and intellectual elites, both inside the country and around the world, persistently underestimate the threat which these kinds of leaders pose to the survival of democratic institutions.’”
Clinton also suggested American citizens, under President Trump, may lose their rights to due process.
“Today, the American president tweeted there should be no judicial process, there should be no due process for anyone who crosses the border,” Clinton said. “I can’t help but think, if you strip immigrants and asylum seekers of due process and judicial review, who is next?”
Was she at Royal Ascot? What a horse’s ass.
I believe Andrew Jackson, the first official Democrat in the White House, was the first to urge repeal of the electoral college after his loss in 1824. So now it is fitting for Mrs. Bill to put in her two cents.
There would be no such flatulence coming from Hildabeast’s mouth if she had won. Thank you Lord God it did not happen.
Remember her demanding that Trump had to accept the election results? Then she lost the election, didn’t concede, and is trashing the Constitution!
Hillary blames everything and everyone for losing ... but herself.
Clinton, Obama, Hillary, McCain, they all go abroad to trash our nation.
Hell, if they’d just stay!
Her position on the E.C., like her position on every issue, is one of convenience. If Trump had won the popular vote with a lopsided win in Texas or somewhere but lost the Electoral College, Hills would be out there singing the praises of our wonderful E.C. and pointing out the genius of a system that is fair to small states like Connecticut.
I was watching msnbc election night 2016 coverage on youtube last night. When it was apparent that Trump was going to win, their election analyst talked about Hillary’s path to victory in the popular vote. Seriously.
AMEN to that
She’s in the UK, where their chief executive is not elected by ‘national popular vote’ either, but by which party wins the majority in Parliament in individual, separate elections.
Yeah, she and her campaign leaders were too stupid to listen to reports from the field. That will doom any organization.
Wow that’s pathetic.
LOSER! Loser, Loser , Loser.
Tell England to keep her, we don’t want her.
She’s a Traitor, a Loser, and she’s Ugly!
Dyke loser....
I remember how the commentators when several national polls showed Trump winning at a given point in the race between the conventions, they pooh-poohed the results saying “well, Trump could do well in the popular vote, but his real problem is with the Electoral College.” The liberal commentators all hung their hats on that analysis as they were sure to win with the EC. then of course, the opposite was the case. That same thing played out in 2000 when some polls suggested Bush would comfortably win the popular vote but could lose the EC - the liberals all played up the genius of the Founders and their system for electing presidents - then trashed it when the opposite result occurred.
I see steam coming from that statement. And it is right behind a horse.
Yup. It’s pretty sad.
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