Hillary Clinton is still struggling to accept the results of the 2016 election. In an interview for Netflix’s “The American Experiment” docuseries that releases June 24, Clinton calls the Electoral College “an abomination for obvious reasons,” Variety reports.
The “obvious reason” is that it didn’t work in her favor. Clinton handily lost the Electoral College in 2016, receiving just 227 votes compared to President Donald Trump’s 304. Clinton won the popular vote by 2.9 million votes, although only thanks to California and New York, states well-documented as maintaining inaccurate voter rolls and sloppy elections.
Ever since, Clinton has struggled to accept the results of the 2016 election and keeps blaming everything but herself. Speaking to CNN in 2017 Clinton said the Electoral College “needs to be eliminated” and, “In a democracy, we should respect the will of the people and to me, that means it’s time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president.”
In one case, Clinton told The New York Times podcast that she was “the candidate that they basically stole an election from.” She’s also repeatedly blamed foreign interference for her loss — another unsubstantiated claim.
If Clinton and her party succeed in “abolishing” or “eliminating” the Electoral College, then winning California and New York would be all that’s necessary to become president of the entire country. That, of course, would fundamentally change the country.