2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumChuck Todd to Podesta: How Much of Democrats' Loss Is on the Campaign and Not Comey, Russia?
by Josh Feldman | 11:50 am, December 18th, 2016
John Podesta appeared on Meet the Press today to discuss Russian hacking and how his emails became a big part of the campaign that ended up with his candidate losing.
Podesta revealed in this interview that the FBI has only spoken to him once about his email account being hacked. He told Chuck Todd this took place in early October, after the WikiLeaks dump began, and he hasnt heard from them since. And its very clear to him that the letter from FBI Director James Comey was a big factor in Hillary Clintons loss.
Todd asked him that when the history of this election is written, how much of the Democratic loss is about Russia and Comey as opposed to failures by the Clinton campaign to go into states like Wisconsin.
Podesta said Democrats want a full accounting of the election and while he did note the popular vote and how slim the margins were in key states, he did admit that theres no question they made wrong decisions.
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http://www.mediaite.com/tv/chuck-todd-to-podesta-how-much-of-dem-loss-is-on-the-campaign-and-not-comey-russia/
bench scientist
(1,107 posts)He is partisan hack and insufferably smug.
Paladin
(28,758 posts)Fuck him, and fuck his cohorts. Forever. There is nothing they can do to make things better, now.
bench scientist
(1,107 posts)Cha
(305,404 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)Sure Comey's second announcement caused her poll numbers to drop substantially, but it was only because of the email server existing. But I don't know what the campaign could have done about that as it was set up before the 2016 campaign apparatus.
Justice
(7,198 posts)Yurovsky
(2,064 posts)and you seem to miss the point that it never should have been an issue to begin with. There was never a good reason to have it, and the reasons she's floated have been contradicted by subsequent facts coming out.
Totally self-inflicted wound. Neither the GOP nor the Russians had a damn thing to do with it.
cigsandcoffee
(2,300 posts)That is an entirely self-inflicted wound, And completely avoidable.
Cha
(305,404 posts)it was over. So comey had to bring it back.
I realize there are those who want to blame it all on Hillary but that's just not reality. It was legal to have private email servers.
oasis
(51,703 posts)from the beginning.
Please America, excuse Hillary from so much as getting up in the morning.
Justice
(7,198 posts)Cha
(305,404 posts)Cha
(305,404 posts)How much negative news did they scream out about Hillary and give drumpfuck a free ride?
Yeah, no campaign is perfect.. Hillary won the primary by 3 3/4 Million votes and her message was strong.
dumphuck had the media, the Russians, comey, voter suppression in red states and voter purging or she would have had more votes.
his message was this.. and chukie toad's "media" made it normal..