SCHUMER: Report's of Russia's interference in the election should shake us to the core

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36. It is not a sure thing

that trump would not have won with or without Russia's interference. We need to start accepting the truth. Many democrats lacked enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton and she was not able to attract independent voters especially after selecting Tim Caine as her running mate.

It's easy to blame it on Comey, on the Russians...

Yes, Russia had a huge stake in having Trump win because of his decidedly pro-Russia alt right direction. They are playing the same game in france with Le Pen who is a pro-Russia far right candidate.

Still, Trump is not responsible for Russian actions and, again, he probably would have won regardless.

Clinton should have chosen Sanders as running mate and kept laser sharp focus on jobs and campaign agressively in rust belt states. That'/ all that was needed to win this election. And yes, the result makes Trump smarter than Clinton. Yes, you can be smart and evil - Hitler had high IQ.

I hate to say it but Hillary might be brilliant policy-wise but she is a terrible politician. She couldn't even communicate in sinple terms exactly what changes to the ACA will be made to lower costs.

What we are doing right now is killing ourselves by focusinrg on recounts, sabotaging electors, proposing useless constitutional amendment to remove EC, etc. Instead of learning from the election post-mortem and focusing on the voters (real people) in critical states. But with Pelosi and , I am afraid, Keith ellis, we are looking at GOP 60 seats post 2018 midterms. That's the new reality.