Hillary Clinton on Saturday apologized for comments she made earlier this month when she claimed that states that supported her during the election were more wealthy than those who supported President Donald Trump.
In a lengthy Facebook post Saturday, Clinton clarified the intention of her remarks, that cities that do better economically “typically lean Democrat and and places where there is less optimism about the future lean Republican.”
“That doesn’t mean the coasts versus the heartland, it doesn’t even mean entire states,” she wrote. “In fact, it more often captures the divisions between more dynamic urban areas and less prosperous small towns within states. As I said throughout the campaign, Trump’s message was dark and backwards looking.”
She claimed that she meant for her “backwards” comments to reference his policy stances, not be reflective of the people or places that went for Trump.
“I don’t need to list the reasons, but the foundation of his message, ‘Make America Great AGAIN’ suggests that to be great we have to go back to something we are no longer. I never accepted that and never will,” she said.
Read her full statement here.
MOST people don’t do ‘nuance’ Hill…maybe it’s time to just step back and just do ‘policy’ with wonks.
Please stop apologizing, Hillary. You were right, many in his base are deplorable, the coal jobs are not coming back and the people in that and other industries need job training for future employment.
You’re not wrong so please stop apologizing.
And at most it was a matter of clarification in the face of (surprise!) negative misreading of what she said.
This suggestion fails to account for millions that wouldn’t benefit from such measures. Many dying industries are not chock full of 20-30-40 year old people that made this their career straight out of high school. Their workforces have been dwindling for years, and due to seniority considerations the younger workers were often the first out the door as plants closed and/or moved out of country. When the final death knell sounded there were a slew of 50-60 year old people manning the shop. What does a person 5-10 years from retirement with a high school diploma, if that, retrain to do in this economy? Any rewarding work may take at least 2-3 years to master, and that’s AFTER what, a year, or two-three or more of retraining? You own a business and want to hire a 61 year old person that’s just finished a year of trade school? So they can leave just when he/she gets proficient only to finally retire anyway?