Former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday that President-elect Donald Trump won the 2024 election “fairly and squarely,” but he still feels the result was unfair in 2016.
“Donald Trump won the race fair and square this time,” Clinton told “The View,” adding, “I think so.”
Appearing on ABC's talk show, the former president was reminded by co-host Joy Behar that he wrote in his memoir that he couldn't sleep because he was furious over the death of his wife, Hillary Clinton, in 2016. .
“How are you sleeping now?” Behar asked, referring to Trump's defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris. “What's going to happen now?”
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“I’m sleeping better now because I did everything I could for alternatives,” he said. “But we can all take a deep breath and say that unlike in 2016, there was no outside influence where the FBI director intervened at the last minute in violation of 70 years of policy, and 5% has changed. I think it’s important.” [in polling] All night long. ”
The Clintons have repeatedly blamed then-FBI Director James Comey for a late October 2016 letter reopening an investigation into his use of a private email server as a decisive factor in his narrow loss to Trump. .
President Clinton said Wednesday that he had never seen such a drastic change in the polls in his life. Nevertheless, despite Director Comey's letter to Congress about the investigation, Hillary Clinton was widely supported by experts going into that year's election to defeat Trump.
“Anyone who says they didn’t give the election to Trump needs to do that,” he said Monday, at a loss for words.
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump side by side. (AP image)
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But Clinton said Trump won this year's election fairly, or so she thought.
“i haven't [Trump]. As far as I know, he won the case because you need some evidence to prosecute, but there are many reasons for that,” he said.
The former president called on his party to abide by a peaceful transfer of power and work with Trump and the Republican Party when possible.
“I don’t think we should just sabotage them, even though they often do that to us,” he said. “I think that's a mistake.”
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Mr. Clinton served as governor of Arkansas before his successful run for president in 1992, building a coalition of both rural and urban voters. A generation later, rural working-class voters fled the Democratic Party in droves.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks at Vice President Kamala Harris' Vote Revocation Rally during the first day of early voting in North Carolina on October 17, 2024 in Durham, North Carolina. Mr. Harris lost the election. (Photo by LOGAN CYRUS/AFP) (Photo by LOGAN CYRUS/AFP via Getty Images)
Asked about winning back that segment of the voting public on the show, Clinton said Democrats tend to downplay certain groups based on demographics or support potential.
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“We have to stop shouting at each other and listen to each other,” he said.
