2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Who we should or shouldn't have nominated NO LONGER MATTERS. [View all]red dog 1
(29,338 posts)No, we DEFINITELY need to make changes!
Hillary Clinton had her flaws, but her biggest mistake, imo, was to NOT choose either Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren as her running mate.
HRC got nearly 17 million votes (55%) and won 34 states
Bernie Sanders got more than 13 million votes (43%) and won 23 states
17 million votes to 13 million votes - that's NOT a huge win!
That clearly showed that the Democratic Party was split between the Clinton supporters and Sanders supporters
By choosing the candidate who won 23 states & got more than 43 percent of the vote as her running mate, Clinton would have "united" the Democratic Party, and would have easily defeated the Talking Yam, in spite of:
- Assange's Wikileaks release of HRC's emails
- The unprecedented "hack-attack" on the DNC and the Clinton campaign by a foreign power
- The treasonous letter James Comey sent to Congress 11 days prior to the election, (which was a clear violation of the Hatch Act of 1939)
In spite of all that, Clinton STILL would have defeated Trump, had her lead been 11 + points going into the election, instead of only 4 points.
The Republicans can steal elections only when the race is close.
Obama proved that in 2008 and 2012.
Had Hillary made a wiser choice for her running mate, we'd be talking about President-elect Clinton now.
In 2020, whoever the Democratic nominee turns out to be, he or she needs to remember Clinton's mistake in 2016, and not make that same mistake again.
Imo, If the Democratic Party goes into the 2020 presidential election as a UNITED party, they will defeat Trump or whoever else the GOP nominee is.