Is Hillary Clinton on the verge of a meltdown?
On the heels of reports that many Democrats aren’t exactly thrilled with the idea of her running for president again, the former First Lady last week launched a bizarre attack on the Democratic National Committee, suggesting that it had sabotaged her 2016 campaign by failing to set up a top-notch data operation to help her identify and track key voter groups, especially in the swing states.
Clinton claimed that the DNC data operation was so “inept” and “underfunded,” that she had to contribute her own campaign money just to keep it going.
It’s only the latest excuse that Clinton has invented to try to explain how she got beaten last fall, and it’s left many Democrats apoplectic.
“Fucking bullshit,” is how Andrew Therriault, the former director of DNC data operations, reacted in a tweet after learning of Clinton’s comments. In fact, there was plenty of data available showing that none of the key Rust Belt States she ended up losing, including Pennsylvania and Michigan were “safe” – but Clinton’s campaign simply ignored that data on the assumption that they knew the landscape better, he noted.
Clinton’s comments come after news reports have circulated that many Democrats are growing leery of Clinton’s recent efforts to declare herself the leader of the “resistance” to Trump’s presidency.
