No better day than today for Hillary Clinton to have been so honored! Congratulations, Hillary!
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will talk about her loss in the 2016 presidential election and the political climate in the U.S. a year later as she receives the 2017 Democratic Woman of the Year Award.
Hillary Clinton will accept the 2017 Democratic Woman of the Year Award around 4:30 p.m. ET. Watch live in the player above.
The award, given by the Woman’s National Democratic Club, is “in recognition of her extraordinary contributions to American politics and international affairs, as well as the inspiration she has provided to women and girls around the world.”
The award comes weeks after Clinton released her latest book, “What Happened,” which detailed her 2016 campaign and her loss to President Donald Trump.
Donna Brazile and Elizabeth Warren can go wash Bernie’s socks.
Edited to add this.
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton received a Democratic Woman of the Year Award — who else would it be? — at the Women’s National Democratic Club on Thursday, and the first tears were shed about three minutes after she took the stage.
In a room full of purple suffragist sashes and elected officials, Nuchhi Currier, the president of the organization, choked up when she said the outcome of the election — 358 days ago — was “very different from what had been anticipated.”
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Mrs. Clinton’s appearance signaled the continuation of the Democratic mourning process that has persisted since the election, even as drama continues to mark her campaign. On Thursday, Politico published a first-person article by Donna Brazile, the former chair of the Democratic National Committee, who wrote that the Clinton campaign in 2016 controlled the committee and rigged the nomination process. Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, made the same accusation on CNN on Thursday.
Ms. Brazile also wrote that the Clinton campaign had used a joint fund-raising agreement that would grant it control over strategy in exchange for raising funds. Ms. Brazile characterized the agreement as a “cancer” for the Democratic Party.
Through a spokeswoman, officials for the party disagreed.
“Joint fund-raising committees were created between the DNC and both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in attempt to raise the general election funds needed to win in 2016,” Xochitl Hinojosa, the communications director for the committee, wrote in an email on Thursday. “Clinton was the only candidate who raised money for the party through her joint fund-raising committee with the DNC, which would benefit any candidate coming out of the presidential primary process.”
Thank you for this! She and we needed this today.
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wow another rigged contest
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😀 I needed that laugh!
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That book excerpt getting so much attention is deliberately vague so as to be deliberately misleading. There were TWO Joint Fundraising Agreements, one in August 2015 and one in June 2016 when Hillary secured the nomination. Brazile never mentions this important fact, and, as some have pointed out, appears to conflate the two. If she acknowledged the second agreement, it would destroy her argument since if Hillary already controlled the party, the second agreement giving her control would not have been necessary. To be clear, given that she was bailing out the party (literally keeping it alive), Hillary would have had every right to control it prior to the second JFA, but I don’t think that was the case.
I am old enough to remember an actual “rigged” primary when legally cast votes were changed by the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee. Donna Brazile was not only okay with that–she was instrumental in it.
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Yes, I think you’re referring to 2008. To me, it was obvious the DNC was for Obama and not Clinton. Brazile was fine with all that in 2008 but not in 2016 when Hillary herself is bailing out the mismanaged DNC and having to compete against someone who isn’t a Democrat in the first place and contributed zero money to the party. Go figure – very disappointed with Brazile … and Warren.
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What is the difference in the two JFA’s? And are there two?
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Brazile and Warren’s blatant pandering to Bernie supporters is a gift to Trump and Putin. They should be ashamed. Not only that, as Brassy Rebel notes, Brazile is smearing Hillary because of her conflating the two JFAs.
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Yes, they should be ashamed if this is nothing more than pandering to Bernie. I’m still in shock that they would do this at Hillary’s expense. I must admit this is a new low. Hillary doesn’t deserve this.
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But are we really surprised? The Clintons have long been a convenient punching bag for the left as well as the right.
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Yesterday, I called Warren’s office and expressed my extreme outrage at her pandering to sanders. How she could do this to Hillary and support sanders, who has done NOTHING for the dems and very little for his constituents in the last 30 years he has been feeding off the government teat, warren has simply shown me that she is nothing more than an opportunistic politician and not the “pure” progressive she claims to be and a detriment to women in ever achieving equal representation. I then ended with “shame on you!” although I had other more deserving words of disgust in mind in response to her betrayal of Hillary
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