Move over James Comey and Vladimir Putin: the American prognosticators, pollsters and pundits are now to blame for Hillary Clinton’s defeat, too.
After complaining about the “fake news” that was percolating on Facebook during the election, Clinton said she was “the victim of a very broad assumption I was going to win.”
“A victim that you were going to win…” the moderator said to her.
“Yeah, everybody…” Clinton replied.
The other moderator named Nate Silver and the New York Times as culprits in Hillary’s colossal defeat, which speculated that she had a nearly 90% chance of beating Donald Trump.
“I never believed that. I always thought it was going to be a close election because our elections are always close,” Clinton insisted.
“If you have an R next to your name or a D next to your name, you end up often falling in line to vote for your candidate.
“So I think a lot of people (thought) ‘we’ll get to that after the election, you know, we’re not going to worry about it right now,'” she said of those supposedly worried about “fake news.”
“And that turned out to be a terrible mistake,” Clinton said.
She said analysts and networks went along and covered the “fake news” because it was good for ratings, and therefore the bottom line.
“The networks made more money than they’ve made in years and we’ve got lots of network executives saying things like, ‘you know, (Trump) may not be good for the country, but he’s good for business.'”
So now the pollsters and liberal pundits propagandizing on cable news and social media are also to blame?
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