Shouting match erupts between Clinton and Trump (and other campaign) aides at Harvard
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The raw, lingering emotion of the 2016 presidential campaign erupted into a shouting match here Thursday as top strategists of Hillary Clintons campaign accused their Republican counterparts of fueling and legitimizing racism to elect Donald Trump.
The extraordinary exchange came at a postmortem session sponsored by Harvard Universitys Kennedy School of Government, where top operatives from both campaigns sat across a conference table from each other.As Trumps team basked in the glow of its victory and singled out for praise its campaigns chief executive, Stephen K. Bannon, who was absent, the row of grim-faced Clinton aides who sat opposite them bristled.
Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri condemned Bannon, who previously ran Breitbart, a news site popular with the alt-right, a small movement known for espousing racist views.If providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician, I am proud to have lost, she said. I would rather lose than win the way you guys did.
Kellyanne Conway, Trumps campaign manager, fumed: Do you think I ran a campaign where white supremacists had a platform?You did, Kellyanne. You did, interjected Palmieri, who choked up at various points of the session.