Former President Bill Clinton admitted his wife Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign “could not sell pussy on a troop train,” according to an explosive report.
According to a report from the Intercept’s Washington, DC, bureau chief Ryan Grim, Clinton made the scathing comment to a friend about his wife’s campaign in his book The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution.
In an excerpt from the book published in the Intercept on December 5, Grim wrote:
“Former president Bill Clinton, surveying the landscape and the ham-handed efforts at identity politics, was bereft, lamenting to a longtime friend in the fall of 2016 that Hillary’s campaign ‘could not sell pussy on a troop train.'”
The excerpt, dubbed “The Rise and (First) Fall of Bernie,” follows the 2016 Democrat primary fight between Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), when the progressive Seantr almost upended Hillary’s general election aspirations with a grassroots coalition.
Grim recounts how Clinton’s campaign “worked directly with Washington-based nonprofit advocacy groups… to ghost-write op-eds explaining how the Sanders position on this or that issue was actually sexist or racist.”
Grim said the strategy “likely pushed moderate voters paying only marginal attention to the campaign toward Sanders, who spoke like a normal person while Clinton began ascending into what her ally James Carville would later call ‘faculty lounge speak.'”
Put more, Clinton embraced the jargon of the leftist elite, thus creating a total disconnect with the average voter. At the same time, Sanders’s direct and straightforward rhetoric began to win voters over.
The strategy led Clinton to brand Donald Trump’s supporters as a “basket of deplorable.”
“The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up,” Clinton said at the time.
Bill Clinton repeatedly warned about appealing to white working-class voters, but he was ignored.
As Politico noted:
“But in general, Bill Clinton’s viewpoint of fighting for the working-class white voters was often dismissed with a hand wave by senior members of the team as a personal vendetta to win back the voters who elected him, from a talented but aging politician who simply refused to accept the new Democratic map.
“At a meeting ahead of the convention at which aides presented to both Clintons the “Stronger Together” framework for the general election, senior strategist Joel Benenson told the former president bluntly that the voters from West Virginia were never coming back to his party.”
As Breitbart reported:
As Democrats have further descended into the party of “wokeness” in the seven years since then, West Virginia has turned increasingly red, evidenced by Gov. Jim Justice (R-WV) flipping parties from Democrat to Republican at a Trump rally in 2017 and Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) decision not to seek another term.
Justice notably announced a bid for Manchin’s seat and regularly polled far ahead of him before the moderate Democrat opted not to seek reelection.
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