Hillary Clinton shares her biggest campaign regret: 'I came across as too serious'
Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stopped by The View on Wednesday along with her daughter Chelsea, and opened up about her biggest campaign regrets.
Clinton was asked by co-host Abby Huntsman, “When you look back on your campaign and what Democrats today might do differently, what goes through your mind?”
“I’m a serious person but I’m also a fun person,” Clinton responded. “I think I probably came across as too serious.”
The former Secretary of State also shared the burden she says she felt being a woman running for president. “I really believed that my job, especially as a woman and the first woman to go as far as I did, that I had to help people feel good about a woman in the Oval Office, a woman commander-in-chief,” said Clinton. “I may have overcorrected a little bit,” she added.
Clinton also acknowledged that she was at the table with two people whose families had lost presidential bids, co-hosts Abby Huntsman and Meghan McCain. Huntsman’s father, outgoing U.S. ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman Jr., ran for the office in 2012, while McCain’s father, the late Sen. John McCain, famously lost to Barack Obama in 2008.
Clinton said of the loss, “It was devastating as it was, I know, for the McCain family.” McCain then joked, “I think there was more vodka involved in our election night.”
“There was vodka involved every time I traveled with your dad, I’ll tell you that!” Clinton fired back. She added, “But what happens on the road stays on the road!”
Many viewers on Twitter wrote messages of support to Clinton:
Hillary is AMAZING AND she totally owned her issues, unlike ANYTHING we see recently. As a woman there was a very thin line between seeming tough enough to be Commander in Chief and fun and personable enough to have the “It factor.” Seems incompetence was what the masses wanted?
— Dennis doell (@DdoellDennis) October 2, 2019
A true example of what a president is! Thank you @HillaryClinton
— Jason Wolfe (@JasonRWDivo) October 2, 2019
If you watched @TheView today, you saw what could have been. @HillaryClinton is a rockstar. Articulate, intelligent, thoughtful, kind, & sane. #ImpeachTrumpPenceBarrPompeo
— Milomom (@milomom2) October 2, 2019
Others heard Clinton’s campaign regrets and weren’t fans, saying they felt she’s someone who can’t move on from her loss:
Well news flash Hillary - he beat you - now get over it
— Kathy Rasmussen (@Kras0259) October 2, 2019
Sore Losers always complain.
— Anna (@olddragonlady40) October 2, 2019
Someone call the Guinness book of world records. This has got to be the longest temper tantrum ever. #youlostgetoveryourself
— Diane Champagne (@DianeCham) October 2, 2019
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