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Axelrod Rips Clinton for Excuses: 'It Takes a Lot of Work to Lose to Donald
Trump'
Do you think he should have thought about this before he backed her to the
exclusion of others?!?

http://freebeacon.com/politics/axelrod-rips-clinton-election-excuses-takes-lot-work-lose-donald-trump/

Axelrod Rips Clinton for Election Excuses: ‘It Takes a Lot of Work to Lose
to Donald Trump’
Jack Heretik <http://freebeacon.com/author/jack-heretik/>May 3, 2017 9:21 am

BY:

Former Obama White House adviser David Axelrod ripped Hillary Clinton on
Wednesday for her continued excuses for losing the 2016 presidential
election.

Axelrod was asked to comment on Clinton's remarks
<http://freebeacon.com/politics/clinton-way-victory-comey-letter-came/>
from Tuesday, when she said that FBI Director James Comey's letter to
Congress played a role in her loss to President Donald Trump, as well as
WikiLeaks, sexism, and Russia.

Axelrod first said that he believed Comey's letter may have played a role
in the loss before turning to her campaign's errors.

"Jim Comey didn't tell her not to campaign in Wisconsin after the
convention. Jim Comey didn't say, ‘Don't put any resources into Michigan
until the final week of the campaign,'" Axelrod said. "One of the things
that hindered her in the campaign was a sense that she never fully was
willing to take responsibility for her mistakes, particularly that server."

Axelrod also recommended that Clinton stop appearing to shift
responsibility for her loss.

"She said the words ‘I'm responsible,' but everything else suggested that
she really doesn't feel that way and I don't think that helps her in the
long run," Axelrod said.

Additionally, Axelrod took Clinton to task for losing to Trump, who he felt
would have been easy to beat. Trump's popularity numbers were historically
low
<https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/08/31/poll-clinton-trump-most-unfavorable-candidates-ever/89644296/>
for a major party candidate during the campaign, and he is already the least
popular
<http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-low-approval-rating-first-100-days-2017-4>
president at this stage of his term in modern history.

"It takes a lot of work to lose to Donald Trump, let me tell you," he said.
"He was the least popular presidential candidate to win in the history of
polling, and so it wasn't just the Comey letter. The fact that she was in a
position to lose because of the Comey letter is something that deserves
some introspection."


Eric D. Schwerin
eschwerin@rosemontseneca.com

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