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Hillary Clinton says James Comey’s letter, Russian hackers cost her the election

Hillary Clinton says her campaign wasn't perfect , but she was on the way to winning until a combination of FBI director James Comey's letter and Russian WikiLeaks

Hillary Clinton, who said she is going through the ‘painful process’ of writing a book dealing in part with the election, also said misogyny played a role in her defeat. Photo: ReutersPremium
Hillary Clinton, who said she is going through the ‘painful process’ of writing a book dealing in part with the election, also said misogyny played a role in her defeat. Photo: Reuters

Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday she was on the path to victory in the 2016 presidential election until late interference by Russian hackers and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director James Comey scared off some potential supporters.

In her most extensive public comments on the 8 November election, Clinton told a New York conference she was derailed by Comey’s 28 October letter informing Congress the FBI had reopened a probe of her use of a private email server and by the WikiLeaks release of campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails, allegedly stolen by Russian hackers.

“If the election had been on October 27, I would be your president," she told a women’s conference moderated by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.

“It wasn’t a perfect campaign, but I was on the way to winning until a combination of Comey’s letter and Russian WikiLeaks," the Democrat said of the loss to Republican Donald Trump. “The reason why I believe we lost were the intervening events in the last 10 days."

Clinton, who said she is going through the “painful process" of writing a book dealing in part with the election, also said misogyny played a role in her defeat. Becoming the first woman US president would have been “a really big deal," she said.

Clinton took personal responsibility for the campaign’s mistakes, but did not question her strategy or her staff. “I was the candidate, I was the person who was on the ballot. I am very aware of the challenges, the problems, the shortfalls that we had," Clinton said.

She said she had no doubt that Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to influence the election for Trump, and bluntly criticized the new US president for some of his foreign policy views and for tweeting too much.

“I’m back to being an activist citizen - and part of the resistance," she said.

Clinton said broader negotiations involving China and other countries in the region were critical for convincing North Korea to rein in its nuclear program. She questioned Trump’s recent suggestion he would be willing to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un under the right circumstances.

“You should not offer that in the absence of a broader strategic framework to try to get China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, to put the kind of pressure on the regime that will finally bring them to the negotiating table," Clinton said.

She also said she supported the recent missile strikes ordered by Trump in Syria but was unsure if they would make a difference. “There is a lot that we don’t really yet fully know about what was part of that strike," she said. Reuters

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Published: 03 May 2017, 10:13 AM IST
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