Former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday that President-elect Donald Trump won the 2024 race “fairly” in contrast to what he still feels was an illegitimate result in 2016.
“This time, Donald Trump won the race, fair and square,” Clinton said.view,Adding: “I think.”
In an appearance on the ABC talk show, co-host Joy Behar reminded the former president that he wrote in his memoir that he was so angry over his wife Hillary Clinton's loss in 2016 that he couldn't sleep.
“How are you sleeping now?” Behar asked, referring to Trump's defeat of the vice president Kamala Harris. “What will happen now?”
Bill Clinton appears on “The View” on December 11, 2024.
“I sleep better now because I did everything I could for the alternative,” he said. “But I also think it's important for everyone to take a deep breath and say, unlike 2016, there was no outside influence like the FBI director stepping in last minute in violation of a 70-year-old policy, and it changed by 5% (on the ballot) ) overnight.”
The Clinton family has repeatedly blamed-FBI Director James Comey A late October 2016 letter reopens the investigation into her use of a private email server as a deciding factor in her narrow loss to Trump.
President Clinton said Wednesday that he had never in his life witnessed such a rapid turnaround in the vote. However, Hillary Clinton was widely favored by experts who ran that year to defeat Trump, despite Comey's letter to Congress about the investigation.
“Anyone who says he didn't give Trump the election needs to —” he said Monday.
Along with Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. (AP Photo)
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But in this year's election, Clinton said Trump won fairly, or so he thought.
He added: “I'm not like (Trump). I have to have some evidence to charge, and as far as I know, he won, and there are a lot of reasons behind that.”
The former president called on the party to monitor the peaceful transfer of power Working with Trump And Republicans when possible.
“I don't think we should disturb them, even though they often do that to us,” he added. “I think it's a mistake.”
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Clinton was governor of Arkansas before his successful run for president in 1992, where he built a coalition of rural and urban voters. A generation later, working-class rural voters fled the Democratic Party in droves.
Former US President Bill Clinton speaks during a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris on the first day of early voting in North Carolina in Durham, North Carolina, on October 17, 2024. Harris lost the election. (Photo by Logan Cyrus/AFP) (Photo by Logan Cyrus/AFP via Getty Images)
Asked about winning back that part of the voting base on the platform, Clinton said Democrats have a tendency to write off certain groups based on demographics and likelihood of support.
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He added: “We have to stop yelling at each other and listen to each other.”
