You know, I’m tired of people, even in my own party, even friends of mine,
who aren’t willing to do the hard work of building a party that can win. That’s why I started a new organisation called Onward Together. I am funding and supporting grassroots groups that are recruiting candidates, particularly young women, that are training them, that are standing up for a lot of the progressive causes that I believe in.
Because, you know, I’m not going to sit around and worry about what happens in 2020. I’m going to try to build a party that can win in 2018. If we take back the house in 2018, and it is plausible because I won 24 congressional districts with Republican incumbents in them, then everything changes.
Q - But is there a risk in that strategy, which clearly those are all laudable things that everyone would want to happen—less gerrymandering, no voter suppression—but that said, if the Democratic Party pushes and makes that its main focus, that it is seen as the party of identity politics.
You know, I beat Bernie Sanders by four million votes, okay. So that was a landslide by any definition. He was very clear that there was only one message, a single message about billionaires, you know, take back America from the billionaires, and he had ideas which were hard for him to explain but he never had to explain them except in one editorial board meeting with the New York Daily News. So when people say, you know, just give up on that civil rights stuff, don’t talk about it. Look what Trump is doing. You know, what are the Democrats supposed to say? Oh, we don’t want to talk about it, oh it’s too controversial? No!
Stand up for what you believe in and what you know is right. If it costs you votes, go find the votes somewhere else. I didn’t do a good enough job fighting suppression and finding the votes somewhere else. But
I am determined to make sure the Democratic Party doesn’t make the mistake of walking away from so many of the values and [the] progress that we have helped to bring about. https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21730338-interview-democratic-candidate-president-2016-elections-transcriptThere was not even a single question on Sanders but on Economics where she pivoted to Sanders for some weird reason & hammered him for no good reason.
Anyways, looks like, people will see an active energetic Hillary Clinton who will play a big role in future Democratic contests & in the direction of the Dem party !