Hillary Clinton adviser Karen Finney says faced a 'perfect storm' of problems

Relatively than blaming Russian meddling or FBI Director James Comey's late-in-the-game letter, Hillary Clinton's senior adviser Karen Finney urged the Democratic nominee confronted a 'good storm' of issues – and that price her the election. 

'Look, there are any variety of issues that you would level to to say that it was a mistake that we made that in all probability has some benefit to it, as a result of it was such an ideal storm of a whole lot of various things,' Finney advised Jake Tapper, sitting on a panel of Democrats this morning on CNN's State of the Union.  

Finney was making an attempt to push again on the concept that there was some kind of 'magic bullet' that may have modified the trajectory of the doomed Clinton marketing campaign.  

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Karen Finney, a high adviser for Hillary Clinton's marketing campaign, urged that the Democratic nominee misplaced due to a 'good storm' of circumstances 

Karen Finney, showing on State of the Union in the present day, stated she believed the Clinton marketing campaign made errors, however there was no 'magic bullet' to vary the course of the election 

Like a lot of her fellow Democrats, Finney identified the closeness of the race.  

'Notably if you take a look at the truth that in these Rust Belt states ... that hole is about 70,000 votes that we're speaking about,' she continued. 

'A majority of these folks agreed with [Clinton] on the financial system, thought she'd be higher on the financial system,' Finney stated. 'And she or he's received 2.eight million extra within the common vote.'   

Whereas any mixture of swing states may have received the Democratic nominee the presidential election, many of the consideration has been paid to Republican Donald Trump's flip of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania from blue to pink. 

After the ballots had been counted, President Obama fearful that Democrats had been characterised as 'coastal, liberal, latte sipping, you understand, politically appropriate out of contact people.'   

'We have now to be in these communities,' Obama continued. 'I turned a U.S. senator not simply because I had a powerful base in Chicago, however as a result of I used to be driving round down state Illinois and going to fish fries and sitting in VFW halls and speaking to farmers.'  

Finney agreed with the president and urged outreach wanted to be higher.   

She reminded Tapper that below Democratic Nationwide Committee chairman Howard Dean, who took over the celebration in 2005 and concluded his tenure in January 2009, as Obama was being inaugurated, had pursued a '50 state technique,' which helped the  present Democratic president get elected.    

'I believe we have to be taught a few of the classes popping out of this election, no query, when it comes to how we speak to working households, whether or not they're black, white, brown and the place these households are situated, how we speak to them in regards to the points they care about,' Finney stated. 

'So there are such a lot of issues we will – some classes we will be taught,' she stated.  

Finney then flipped again to her earlier level.  

'However I do not assume that that is an instance of, you understand, there are one or two issues that was simply flip a swap and all the things will likely be good,' she stated.   

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