In a recent interview, Hillary Clinton discussed her 2016 presidential campaign and noted that female voters withdrew their support in the final days because they looked at her as being imperfect.
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“They left me because they just couldn’t take a risk on me, because as a woman, I’m supposed to be perfect,” Clinton said in an interview with The New Times. “They were willing to take a risk on [former President Trump] — who had a long list of, let’s call them flaws, to illustrate his imperfection — because he was a man, and they could envision a man as president and commander in chief.”
During the interview with the Times, Clinton criticized members of her party for neglecting to protect abortion rights over the years. She suggested that Democrats underestimated the influence of anti-abortion forces, leading to a situation where they were caught off guard by the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022, thereby eliminating federal access to abortion.
“We didn’t take it seriously, and we didn’t understand the threat,” Clinton said. “Most Democrats, most Americans, did not realize we are in an existential struggle for the future of this country.”
“We could have done more to fight,” she added in the interview, which was originally conducted by the publication in February.