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Democratic Party Autopsy Checklist

Democratic excuses for losing General Election

Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election because: (Choose as many as appropriate)

  • Benghazi excuses
  • Personal rogue email server
  • Leon Podesta’s emails
  • DNC emails
  • WikiLeaks
  • FBI Director Jim Comey
  • Loretta Lynch clandestine meeting with Bill Clinton
  • Donna Brazile leaking debate questions/answers
  • Angry white men, white Supremacist’s (neo-Nazi’s etc.)
  • Non-voting Blacks and Latinos
  • Traitorous, clueless blue-collar and union workers
  • Backstabbing women (all colors)
  • Racist, God-fearing, gun toting evangelicals
  • Celebrities didn’t give enough concerts
  • Russian interference
  • Martian interference
  • Math challenged – can’t count up to 270

OR how about?

  • Ran on identity and left wing socialist politics instead of kitchern table economic issues
  • Foreign policy disasters
  • Country’s economic doldrums
  • Obamacare premium rate hikes
  • Never bothered to campaign in “Rust Belt” states (so-called Democratic “Blue Wall”) because she felt that they would automatically vote Democrat.
  • Democratic “Firewall” of North Carolina ruptured because of lack of campaigning
  • Arrogance of her inner circle that she was the rightful heir to the Obama legacy and Obama’s third term.
  • Personal hubris that she was born to be the first female president
  • My favorite – total rejection of last 8 years under Obama!!!

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