Bill Clinton has admitted that President Donald Trump “won the race fair and square” during the 2024 presidential election.
However, Clinton argues that Trump’s victory was “fair” because “this time” there was no “outside influence” that could impact the outcome of the race.
While he could be arguing that Trump’s 2016 election win was “illegitimate,” Clinton could equally be suggesting that the 2020 race was impacted by voter fraud.
Clinton made the remarks during an appearance on ABC’s left-wing propaganda show “The View.”
“This time, Donald Trump won the race, fair and square – I think,” Clinton told “The View.”
The Democrat ex-president was reminded by co-host Joy Behar that he recently revealed his outrage over his wife Hillary Clinton’s loss to Trump in 2016.
In his memoir, Clinton wrote that he was so outraged over Hillary’s loss in 2016 that he couldn’t sleep.
The ex-POTUS admitted that he suffered “outbursts of rage” for “two years” over Trump’s 2016 victory.
Referring to Trump’s historic defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris last month, Behar asked:
“How are you sleeping now?
“What’s going to happen now?”
“I’m sleeping better now because I did everything I could for the alternative,” he said.
“But I also think it’s important for everybody to just take a deep breath and say, unlike in 2016, there was no outside influence like the FBI Director interfering at the last moment in violation of 70 years of policy, and it changed 5% [in polling] overnight.”
Among a list of other excuses, the Clintons have repeatedly assigned blame to then-FBI Director James Comey for Hillary’s loss.
In late October 2016, Comey announced in a letter that the FBI was re-opening the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server for classified government business.
The Clintons claim Comey’s announcement was a critical factor in her narrow loss to Trump.
Bill Clinton said Wednesday that, in his lifetime, he’d never seen such a rapid polling shift.
Nevertheless, Hillary Clinton was widely favored by experts going into the election that year to defeat Trump, in spite of Comey’s letter to Congress about the investigation.
“Anybody that says that he didn’t give Trump the election needs to –” he said Monday, trailing off.
Yet, the 2024 election polling predicted a tight race that could go either way, despite ending in a landslide for Trump.
In this year’s election, though, Clinton said Trump had won fairly, or so he thought.
“I’m not like [Trump],” he said.
“I have to have some evidence to make a charge, so as far as I know, he won it, and there’re a lot of reasons why.”
The former president called on the party to observe a peaceful transfer of power and work with Trump and Republicans when possible.
“I do not think we should just be jamming them, even though they do that to us a lot,” he said.
“I think it’s a mistake.”
Clinton was governor of Arkansas before his successful run for the presidency in 1992, building a coalition of both rural and urban voters.
A generation later, rural, working-class voters have fled the Democratic Party in droves.
Asked about winning back that section of the voting base on the show, Clinton said Democrats had a tendency to write off certain groups based on demographics and likelihood of support.
“We need to quit screaming at each other and listen to each other,” he said.
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