Hillary wasn’t ready for ‘reality TV’ candidate
■ Clinton said her policies were out of sync with the electorate
Washington, Sept. 16: Nearly 10 months after her shocking defeat at the hands of President Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton has said she was not ready or equipped to run for the White House against a reality television star.
The former Democratic presidential candidate said she had an agenda of development, but possibly there were no takers.
“I take running for President and being President really seriously. I really wasn’t ready or equipped to run for President against a reality TV candidate,” Ms Clinton told PBS News Hour in an interview.
It maybe the toughest job in the world, the 69-year-old former US secretary of state, said. “I knew that there was unfinished business from the successful two terms of President Obama, whom I had served, but that we needed to go further on the economy, on health care, and so much else,” she said.
“I really prepared and I prepared what I wanted to say, how I would defend what I wanted to do. It turned out that was very hard to communicate. It was a time when an empty podium got more broadcast minutes than all of the policies that I was putting forth,” she said.
Ms Clinton said it was clear that the kind of campaign she was running, and the seriousness with which she looked at the agenda, she wanted to represent and then execute “was just out of sync with the anger that a lot of the electorate felt, or the disappointment that another part of the electorate felt.”
In her latest book What happened, which will hit the book stores this week, Ms Clinton appeared to be very critical of Mr Trump. “I believe that he has given a lot of encouragement and rhetorical support to the Ku Klux Klan... I believe he has not condemned the neoNazis and the self-proclaimed white supremacists in Charlottesville and other settings,” she said.
On North Korea, Ms Clinton said: “Make it clear that we will do everything in our power to protect our allies, South Korea and Japan.”