The democrats quest to explain to themselves why they lost the People Summit in Chicago.
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The Democrats quest to explain to themselves why they lost continued recently at something called the people summit in Chicago Van Jones Obama's greens are decided to blame Hillary Clinton. He blasted her and her campaign for tricking Democrats into fighting among themselves over the wrong issues.
John said, the Clinton team based their campaign on a false narrative. They acted as if they have to choose between racial justice for people of color or the white working class. He called it the stupidest false
He never heard of. He also laid into the campaign for spending all that money on themselves, pollsters and consultants. Instead of campaigning. He said they took a billion dollars, they set it on fire, they called it a campaign. He argued the money should have been given back to the people and Democrats should stop getting rich off of other people struggles. Now he's mostly right. Hillary did squander a billion dollars which came primarily from super rich donors. Not the people he's also right that the political establishment class got rich, very rich, even if they lose election after election, they get rich. It happens in both parties, but his complaint.
that Hillary campaigned on identity. Politics come on Van, that's what the whole Democrat Party has run on for fifty years. Hillary was just following the script except this time it didn't work because she was such a lousy candidate. Nothing would have helped get over it.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-16.