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The Ghost of HRC
Trump has won one Presidential campaign vote — the 2016 Electoral College Vote. Candidate Harris’s team takes note.
Consider that Trump didn’t win the 2016 Electoral College vote as much as Hillary Clinton and the Democrats lost the Electoral College vote.
Will Candidate Kamala Harris learn from Clinton’s electoral college defeat?
Hillary Clinton has not resigned from public view since leaving national politics. She is interviewed, she writes op eds. (1) She speaks. Clinton recalls publicly that in 2016, she overestimated the women’s vote and conversely, underestimated the men’s reluctance to vote for a woman President.
More than Comey, more than Benghazi, more than the email server, this oversight cost American voters a historic moment — not electing Donald Trump President and electing the first woman President.
While comparisons are being drawn between the campaigns of 2024 and 2008 (Obama), and between 2024 and 2020 (Biden), consider a more telling comparison: between 2024 and the election of 2016 (Clinton). (2)
By all measures, the election of 2016 was Hillary Clinton’s to lose.
The electoral college vote she lost. (3)
One hundred days before the 2024 election and Candidate Trump hasn’t changed all that much since 2016. The only…
