Hillary Clinton blames women for 2016 election loss: 'They left me'

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Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton blamed women for her 2016 loss and suggested they couldn't vote for her because she was "supposed to be perfect."

After then-FBI Director James Comey re-opened an investigation into her email server before the election, Clinton said female voters were the ones who left her.

"They left me because they just couldn’t take a risk on me, because as a woman, I’m supposed to be perfect. They were willing to take a risk on Trump — who had a long list of, let’s call them flaws, to illustrate his imperfection — because he was a man, and they could envision a man as president and commander in chief," Clinton said, according to The New York Times.

Clinton discussed her new book, "The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America," during a recent interview with the Times and also sounded the alarm on what she believed a second Trump administration would look like.

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Comey eventually did say he wouldn't recommend charges against Clinton, but called the former secretary of state "extremely careless."

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