CNN - "Chuck Schumer just threw Hillary Clinton under the bus"

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/politics/schumer-clinton-2016/index.html

by Chris Cillizza

(CNN)In the 2016 campaign, there was no one more loyal to Hillary Clinton than her one-time Senate colleague Chuck Schumer. He defended his fellow New Yorker and the race she ran at every turn.

Which makes what Schumer said about Clinton over the weekend all the more intriguing.

"When you lose to somebody who has 40% popularity, you don't blame other things -- Comey, Russia -- you blame yourself," Schumer, the top ranking Democrat in the Senate, told The Washington Post over the weekend. "So what did we do wrong? People didn't know what we stood for, just that we were against Trump. And still believe that."
Gauntlet thrown.

Remember that Clinton has laid her defeat in the 2016 election directly at the feet of Russia's meddling -- via a series of hacked emails -- and then-FBI Director James Comey's decision to re-open the investigation into Clinton's private email server.

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This just makes my head hurt......it is just not at all helpful.

[Justice]

1. I supported HRC 100% but do not read Schumer's comments that way.

He says we. Honestly think CNN trying to make trouble.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. perhaps - but any Dem politician that takes blame away from a Russian theft does us no good

There needs to laser focus and alignment on the criminal activity of trump and Russia.

[kentuck]

3. I think it is much more complex than that.

Although I would agree that years of "branding" Hillary by the right-wing media did not help her campaign.

[4now]

4. Chris Cillizza has always hated Clinton

He is just a little sh*t stirrer.

[Historic NY]

6. Exactly.....

I don't retweet his columns.

[cynatnite]

5. He watching Fox Noise? WTF! n/t

[geek tragedy]

7. She probably should not have thrown the DNC data team under the bus

At some point, loyalty stops being a one-way street.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/06/01/ex-dnc-aide-hits-back-hard-at-clinton-says-her-campaign-ignored-its-data-on-michigan-pennsylvania-wisconsin/?utm_term=.52c0146ad187

Hillary Clinton has found plenty of non-Hillary Clinton things to blame for her 2016 loss, including Russia, James B. Comey, debate moderators and misogyny. But her decision Wednesday to add the Democratic National Committee to that list is predictably proving pretty sensitive inside her own party.

A top former DNC aide tweeted overnight that Clinton's allegations were “f‑‑‑ing bulls‑‑‑” and even suggested that the Clinton campaign ignored its warnings about how competitive Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were. Those three states proved decisive for President Trump and, especially in the case of Michigan and Wisconsin, were neglected by the Clinton campaign.

In a Wednesday appearance at Recode's Code Conference in California, Clinton pointed to the DNC's data deficit when she became the Democratic nominee.

“I set up my campaign and we have our own data operation. I get the nomination. So I’m now the nominee of the Democratic Party. I inherit nothing from the Democratic Party,” Clinton said, according to a transcript. “I mean it was bankrupt, it was on the verge of insolvency, its data was mediocre to poor, nonexistent, wrong. I had to inject money into it — the DNC — to keep it going.”


Andrew Therriault, who served as the DNC's director of data science and now works for the City of Boston, took exception to Clinton's criticisms in tweets that have since been deleted.