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In reply to the discussion: Did Hillary Clinton lose because she was forced too far to the Left? [View all]Xolodno
(7,337 posts)1. The GOP was painting her as corrupt long before the presidential race even started.
2. Russia hacking, releasing and framing of information that was very damaging to her.
And despite that, she was on her way to winning, even Moscow assumed she was going to win and pulled the plug on their operations about a month before the election. But were confident they had damaged her enough to where she would have to focus on domestic issues instead of foreign.
3. This was the death knell, Comey sending a letter of an additional investigation to Congress and the GOP publicly releasing it. Comey sent the letter to protect the FBI as he saw that if that info got released they were doing another investigation on Clinton it would damage the FBI. Obviously Comey want's a mulligan for that one.
Minor reasons....
Compare her run against Obama vs. Sanders...the energy just wasn't there. She fought tooth an nail against Obama, not so much this time.
She brought on a middle of the road running mate instead of Sanders, falsely assuming the far left would follow lock step just like the right would.
Not thinking about the optics on certain speaking fees.
I could go on, but, the minor reasons didn't bring her down, although they didn't help. It was all three major reasons that finally did it.