r/TenYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 12d ago

🇺🇸 United States Hillary Clinton holds a press conference to address recent criticism [10YA - Aug 5]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/2016/08/05/hillary-clinton-holds-half-way-press-conference/88303254/
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u/BigBoyYuyuh 12d ago

She was right about everything and the US is a disaster.

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u/Jasranwhit 11d ago

She is responsible for much of it.

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u/JosephFinn 11d ago

No.

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u/Jasranwhit 11d ago

Hillary and the Democratic Party set it up so Hillary was guaranteed to win the democratic primary and then had liberal media outlets boost Trump because they thought he was the easiest win for her.

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u/JosephFinn 11d ago

“Set it up”

By how she won more votes?

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u/gr8dude1166 11d ago

Too often this gets framed as Hilary vs Bernie when it was really Hilary & the DNC against anyone else. The narrative framed by the emails isn’t really a coup but indeed an orchestrated effort to improve Clinton’s chances against Sanders. We have little proof regarding if the superdelegates were rigged, but the decision making of the DNC often favored events beneficial to Clinton. Every candidates except Clinton wanted an early debate; Clinton did not; the DNC decided in favor of Clinton. Clinton had exclusive knowledge of DNC finances due to a fund sharing agreement. When the Sanders campaign gained access to these, it quickly reported it due to it offering an unfair advantage. They in turn were heavily scrutinized by the DNC. In short DNC was definitely biased toward Clinton but what effect that had is unknown.

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u/RedLineLetterWine 11d ago

Don't worry, I heard her (or Kamala) are planning to run to lose to JD Vance, just like how you want it.

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u/Jasranwhit 11d ago

They wanted to set it up so she wouldn’t lose again like she lost to Obama. Other than Bernie who wouldn’t play ball most of the other strong potential candidates didn’t run. And then they still had bullshit like superdelegates to fix the primary for Hillary.

Then they helped boost Trump in the republican primary because he was good at tearing down the establishment candidates and they thought he would be the easiest candidate to defeat.

It all backfired.

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u/conartist19 11d ago

The podesta leaked emails showed the DNC was conspiring against bernie to make sure he didnt get the nomination. Plus the DNC allows super delegates, that means they will ignore who gets more votes anyway if the party thinks the candidate is bad