Misogyny ‘certainly’ played a role in poll loss, says Hillary Clinton
Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said misogyny “certainly played a role” in her bruising defeat at the hands of Donald Trump in last year’s US presidential election.
“I don’t know that there is one answer,” she told the Women in the World Summit in New York when asked why she thought she lost the white women’s vote to a Republican who had boasted of groping women.
“Certainly misogyny played a role, I mean that just has to be admitted,” said the former New York senator, who won the popular vote but lost the electoral college to Trump.
“I think in this election there was a very real struggle between what is viewed as change that is welcomed and exciting to so many Americans and change which is worrisome and threatening to so many others.
“And layer on the first woman president over that and I think some people, women included, had real problems,” she said in her first interview since her loss.
Having dreamt for years of making history to become the America’s first woman president, Clinton admitted the aftermath of the election was “devastating.”
She slammed Russian interference in the election as “an act of aggression,” warned Moscow was capable of repeating it and called for a bipartisan US commitment to make sure it did not happen again.