The presidential election may have been nearly three months ago, but that’s not stopping Hillary Clinton’s team from continuing to grouse about who they believe snatched victory from her.
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook appeared on MSNBC on Thursday and is still complaining about the process.
Mook claimed their “data” Clinton was 10 points ahead of Donald Trump in Michigan, but it wasn’t until the ambiguous letter by FBI Director James Comey that the lead collapsed.
He said that’s why they made the decisions they did, likely including the choice not to actively campaign in the state until the very end.
“We saw softness in Michigan the whole time, that’s why we have four times the staff Obama did, huge voter registration program in Detroit,” he said.
Mook disputed the notion that Clinton wasn’t electable in Michigan and other blue collar-heavy states.
“We had unprecedented headwinds,” Mook said, “and the challenge Hillary faced and there aren’t good answers about what she could have done, is that it was hard for her to talk about what she wanted to do for people.
“She was getting tripped up every day on emails, Wikileaks,” he said.
“Do you think this was a free and fair election?” host Chuck Todd asked.
“I think that there were a lot of headwinds that Hillary faced…” Mook said, before Todd jumped in, “Headwinds doesn’t answer the question.”
“The result is finished,” Mook continued, “and the result is fair and we need to respect the result.
“I think there were things that happened — interventions by Russia, by James Comey and the FBI, the leaks that we saw coming out of those field offices. Those things were not fair,” he said.
“But you know what? The result is where it is.”
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