Bill Clinton privately condemned Hillary's 2016 presidential campaign - 'Couldn't sell p***y on a troop train'
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband former US President Bill Clinton
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Former President Bill Clinton privately condemned wife Hillary’s unsuccessful 2016 White House campaign, a new book has claimed.
The crass complaint about the former First Lady's efforts was reportedly made by the 42nd Commander-in-Chief in relation to her heavy use of identity politics.
Clinton was particularly keen to stress such points during his spouse’s hard-fought Democratic Party primary contest.
The former Secretary of State, who was up against Vermont’s hard-left Senator Bernie Sanders, attempted to paint her opponent’s policies as sexist and racist in op-eds ghostwritten by advocacy groups.
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The revelations were revealed by journalist Ryan Grim after he penned The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution.
The book claimed: “To the extent that the campaign tactic moved the needle at all, it likely pushed moderate voters paying only marginal attention to the campaign towards Sanders, who spoke like a normal person while Clinton began ascending into what her ally James Carville would later call, ‘faculty lounge speak'.
“Former President Bill Clinton, surveying the landscape and the ham-handed efforts at identity politics was bereft, lamenting to a longtime friend in the fall of 2016 that Hillary’s campaign ‘could not sell p***y on a troop train'.”
Clinton edged out Sanders by 2,811 delegates to Sanders' 1,879, with the popular vote split 58 per cent to 42 per cent.
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Hillary Clinton makes a concession speech after being defeated by Donald Trump
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Despite also winning the popular vote in the general election, the 76-year-old went on to lose to property-tycoon-turned-politician Donald Trump.
Trump received 306 electoral college votes to Clinton’s 232 after winning key swing states such as Arizona, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The 45th President was unable to retain five out of the seven bellweather states against Joe Biden in 2020.
Clinton conceded her 2016 campaign was far from “perfect” but blamed her defeat on misogyny, Russian interference and the FBI’s investigation of her use of a private email server while heading the State Department.
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Speaking to CNN shortly after Trump’s inauguration, she said: “I was on the way to winning until a combination of [former FBI Director] Jim Comey’s letter on October 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off.”
She added: “If the election were on October 27, I would be your President.”
Clinton is reportedly now helping President Biden with his 2024 re-election campaign.
The former First Lady hosted a fundraiser for the 46th President at her home in Washington last month.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump (right)
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She is expected to play a more significant role in Biden’s re-election campaign next year.
Clinton’s 2016 rival will also play a major role in the 2024 Presidential Election.
Trump is leading his Republican rivals by over 40 per cent, recent GOP primary opinion polls have revealed.
Surveys have also suggested Trump could win the popular vote against Biden if an election was held today.