Clinton attributes 2016 loss to "outside factors, like Russia"

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

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This is the key takeaway, and it is not factually incorrect. There is some irony in here is that Comey was motivated to go public on the Clinton investigation as a result of a 2 factors, the first, being a hacked DNC memo, and the second, being the assumption that Trump would lose.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/us/politics/james-comey-election.html

Without Trump, in a normal race, Russia would've backed Hillary as the lesser evil over a normal republican (Russia also targeted Trump's primary opponents and backed Obama over Romney), and Comey doesn't have an incentive to get involved without that hacked memo.

This is true, but it misses the point. It shouldn't have mattered what happened in the final week or what Russia wanted. ANY democrat should have been able to defeat Trump by 15 points. Hillary saying she would have won by three votes or whatever without Comey is tone-deaf - the race should not have been remotely close, and the fact that it was was HER doing, not anyone else's.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

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This is the key takeaway, and it is not factually incorrect. There is some irony in here is that Comey was motivated to go public on the Clinton investigation as a result of a 2 factors, the first, being a hacked DNC memo, and the second, being the assumption that Trump would lose.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/us/politics/james-comey-election.html

Without Trump, in a normal race, Russia would've backed Hillary as the lesser evil over a normal republican (Russia also targeted Trump's primary opponents and backed Obama over Romney), and Comey doesn't have an incentive to get involved without that hacked memo.

ANY democrat should have been able to defeat Trump by 15 points

I have to call BS on that, there is only one democrat in modern times who would be able to pull a significant number of republicans, Joe Biden. Not even Obama would be able to pull GOP votes.

Against a traditional R, this is true. But Trump was not a traditional R. He was only made into one because​ Hillary was such a horrible candidate.