Hillary received the support of mainly middle-aged people, elderly voters, representatives of Latin America, African Americans. The support of the female half of the country played an important role. Clinton’s campaign highlights: pay rise, women's rights, LGBT rights, and improved health care.

Clinton was ahead of Republican candidate Donald Trump by nearly 2.9 million votes (65.84 million versus 62.98 million), but received a smaller number of electoral votes - 227 versus 304, as a result of which she was unable to get elected to the presidency.

Background

2008 elections

On January 20, 2007, Clinton announced the start of the election campaign. She was the main Democratic nominee until Senator Barack Obama beat her in the South Carolina primaries. As a result, with more than 18 million votes, Clinton lost the election race, losing the nomination to Barack Obama. On November 4, 2008, Obama won the election, becoming the 44th President of the United States.

After the 2008 elections

Immediately after the defeat in the election race, rumors began to circulate about Clinton's plans to enter the struggle for the presidency in 2012 or 2016. After leaving the post of Secretary of State in 2013, speculation around the nomination has reached its maximum point. At the same time, Clinton raised about $ 11 million by giving 51 paid lectures to various organizations, including Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks. The lectures were perceived by the public as preparation for debates in future primaries and directly for the elections (Clinton did not refute the rumors).

In 2014, Clinton began preparing for the campaign, building a team and finding sponsors.

In September 2013, amid speculation about her nomination, Clinton said that she did not rule out her candidacy in the elections, but she did not seriously consider this issue. At the end of 2013, Clinton gave an interview to ABC television, where, when asked by Barbara Walters about her nomination, she replied that she was closely watching the current situation and would probably make a final decision in 2014; in June 2014, in an interview with the same channel, she stated that she would make a decision by the end of 2014.

Decision-making

Although many political analysts were confident that Clinton would run in the 2016 elections, it took her a long time to make a final decision. Despite long doubts, at the end of 2014, Hillary Clinton decided to run for president.

Expectations

According to opinion polls in early 2015, Clinton was considered the favorite in the 2016 presidential race. Her 2016 campaign took off on a larger scale than it did in 2008, despite facing strong candidates again. In August 2015, then-Vice President Joe Biden announced that he was seriously considering Clinton's candidacy for the presidency.

According to polls, 99% of people knew who Clinton was (and only 11% of those surveyed said they did not know her well enough to speak about her).

Clinton was named in the magazine's 100 Most Influential People Time .

Announcement

It was originally planned to postpone the campaign announcement, possibly until the end of July 2015.

On April 3, 2015, it was reported that Clinton had leased a small office in Brooklyn, New York. This spurred speculation that the office would be the headquarters of her campaign.

On April 12, 2015, Clinton released a YouTube video in which she announced the start of her campaign. She stated that "Americans need a leader" and she is "ready to become that leader." Following the announcement of the campaign, she traveled to smaller states such as Iowa and New Hampshire. She became the third candidate to announce the start of her presidential campaign, after Ted Cruise from Texas and Pole Rand from Kentucky. Many Democrats saw Clinton benefiting from the proximity of Hillary Clinton and Mark Rubio's start dates, as the announcement of the Clinton campaign could overshadow the start of Rubio's presidential campaign.

The campaign logo was unveiled on April 12, 2016. It consisted of an H in the Latin alphabet with a red arrow in the middle, which drew criticism because red is the color of the Republican Party.

Campaign start

Clinton began her campaign with short trips to small states prior to the start of the primary primaries. Immediately after the campaign was announced, she embarked on a two-day drive in a stylized Chevrolet Express dubbed "Scooby-Doo." The trip began in New York and ended in Iowa. Throughout the tour, stops were made in various cities. The trip received wide media coverage.

Clinton barely responded to reporters' questions and did not give interviews during the first month of the campaign. In particular, during the tour as part of the initial primaries and caucuses, she also did not answer questions from journalists. However, on May 19, 2015, Clinton answered reporters' questions at an event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It was announced that she will be making additional stops in Florida, Texas and Missouri in May and June 2015.

First political steps

In her speech, the candidate drew attention to income inequality in the United States, in particular, she called for the introduction of pay for family reasons, campaigned for equal pay for women, the availability of college tuition and the encouragement of companies that distribute profits among employees.

The organizers of the rally announced that there were 5,500 participants, but according to press reports, this number was exaggerated.

According to John Cassidy, a reporter for The New Yorker, until a certain point in the candidate's speech there were populist notes:

While many of you work multiple jobs to make ends meet, you see that twenty-five hedge fund managers are paid more than all of America's kindergarteners combined. And they often pay at a lower tax rate. So, you have to wonder when will your hard work pay off? When will your family be better off? When?

Original text (eng.)

While many of you are working multiple jobs to make ends meet, you see the top twenty-five hedge-fund managers making more than all of America's kindergarten teachers combined. And often paying a lower tax rate. So, you have to wonder , 'When does my hard work pay off? When does my family get ahead? When?'

Prosperity doesn't have to exist for directors and hedge fund managers. Democracy shouldn't only work for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your job too. You brought them to our country. Now is the time - your time - to build on the gains and move forward.

Original text (eng.)

Prosperity can’t be just for C.E.O.s and hedge-fund managers. Democracy can’t be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too. You brought our country back. Now it "s time-your time-to secure the gains and move ahead.

Advertising

In August 2015, Clinton spent $ 2 million buying airtime in Iowa and New Hampshire. The ad featured pictures of Clinton and her late mother to symbolize family, women and children.

In a review of thirty-two campaign ads, the Clinton Associated Press found that 24 of them mentioned Donald Trump in one way or another. Most of these 24 videos are about Trump himself, and only a few are about his words and actions.

Dossier on Trump's ties to Russia

In early January 2017, a dossier compiled by the firm of a former British intelligence officer was released. Christopher Steele Orbis Business Intelligence, containing materials about the ties of Clinton's rival, Republican Donald Trump, with prostitutes during a long trip to Russia, his corrupt real estate deals in Russia and coordinating with Russian intelligence to hack Democratic computers. The New York Times immediately called this data unverified, and on October 24 of the same year announced the official recognition by the Washington law firm Fusion GPS of the fact that Steele carried out her order, paid for by the Democratic National Committee and the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.

Notes

1. Getting started.
2. AP count: Clinton has delegates to win Democratic nomination (unspecified) . ap.org (June 6, 2016). Retrieved 22 November 2016.
3. Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton, Hoping to Unify Democrats (July 12, 2016).
4. Hillary Clinton Selects Tim Kaine, a Popular Senator From a Swing State, as Running Mate, The New York Times (July 23, 2016).
5. McCaskill, Nolan D.... Hillary Clinton breaks the glass ceiling, Politico (July 26, 2016).
6. Hillary clinton concedes (unspecified) . CNN... Date of treatment November 9, 2016.
7. Goddard, Taegan Did Hillary Clinton ever stop running for president? (unspecified) . The week (February 21, 2014).
8. Hillary Clinton's Paid Speeches to Wall Street Animate Her Opponents, New York Times (January 21, 2016).
9. Leaked Speech Excerpts Show a Hillary Clinton at Ease With Wall Street, New York Times (October 7, 2016).
10. Von Drehle, David... Can Anyone Stop Hillary? , Time (January 27, 2014).
11. Carter, Chelsea J.... Hillary Clinton on possible presidency: "I’m realistic", CNN (September 23, 2013).
12. Chumley, Cheryl K.... Hillary Clinton: I'll announce in 2014 if I'm running, The Washington Times (December 19, 2013).
13. A. B. C. News. Hillary Clinton Reveals 2016 Timetable (unspecified) ... ABC News (June 9, 2014)
14. Pace, Julie... Clinton "s second act: Her long road to 2016 decision, The big story (April 13, 2015).
15. Martin, Jonathan... Joe Biden Wades Further Into 2016 Bid (eng.), The New York Times (August 13, 2015). Date of treatment November 25, 2017.
16. Hillary Clinton "s slow walk to" yes ", POLITICO... Date of treatment November 25, 2017.
17. Miller, Jake... Is Hillary Clinton closing the door on politics? , CBS News (January 29, 2013).
18. Holland, Steve... Hillary Clinton leaving world stage, but for how long? , Reuters (January 16, 2013).
19. Caldwell, Patrick Future Superdelegates Are Already Kissing Up to Hillary 2016 (unspecified) . Mother jones (November 8, 2013).
20. 60 Dems endorse Hillary for 2016 (unspecified) . The hill (January 28, 2014).
21. 2016 Polls Show Clinton Leads in Key States, GOP Field Wide Open - NBC News (eng.), NBC News... Date of treatment November 25, 2017.
22. Despite Sustaining Hits, Hillary Clinton Remains "Formidable" in 2016 NBC / WSJ Poll (eng.), NBC News... Date of treatment November 25, 2017.
23. Joe Biden Wades Further Into '16 Bid, The New York Times (August 13, 2015).
24. Chozick, Amy... Hillary Clinton will Need a Second Chance to Make an Impression, The New York Times (May 19, 2015).
25. Clinton, Hillary... Elizabeth Warren, Time (April 16, 2015).
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27. Why Hillary Clinton will make 2016 announcement in July .
28. Elkin, Alison... , Bloomberg News (January 29, 2015).
29. Clinton Said to Rent Brooklyn Space for Campaign Headquarters, The New York Times (April 3, 2015).
30. Hillary Clinton's Brooklyn, Politico (April 3, 2015).
31. Chozick, Amy... Hillary Clinton Announces 2016 Presidential Bid, The New York Times (April 12, 2015).
32. Hillary Clinton "to announce 2016 presidential campaign", BBC News (April 10, 2015).
33. Hillary Clinton to Announce 2016 Run for President on Sunday, The New York Times (April 10, 2015).
34. Hillary Clinton Expected To Go Small With Big Announcement, It "s All Politics, NPR (April 10, 2015).
35. Hillary Clinton launches 2016 presidential bid, USA Today (April 12, 2015).
36. Kane, Colleen. What the critics say about Jeb Bush "s and Hillary Clinton" s campaign logos (unspecified) .

The elections in America are closely related to the efforts of lobbyists. Presidential campaign budgets are enormous, but many companies and even just rich Americans allocate money for these purposes.

When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, and later in 2012, he promised that he would not take money from registered lobbyists, as well as from special people who are looking for money for politicians, and not always in legal ways ( bundlers).

But his eventual successor, Hillary Clinton, has no intention of following in the footsteps of the incumbent.

The former secretary of state received more than $ 2 million from 40 bundlers, according to data released by the Federal Election Commission.

Overall, Clinton's campaign raised $ 46.7 million from early April to late June.

The list of people who brought money to Clinton includes several famous names. For example, Jerry Crawfordd, a well-known Monsanto lobbyist and an influential person in Iowa, gave about $ 35,000 to the election campaign, Tony Podesta, a megalobist who co-founded the Podesta Group, and his brother John brought in almost $ 75,000.

Other bundlers also represented large companies, including Microsoft (Fred Humphreys) and Exxon Mobil (Teresa Fariello), and industry groups including the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (Daphne Peled).

Another group includes former staff members from a team of prominent Democratic politicians (including Bill Clinton) and politicians themselves, such as former South Carolina Governor Jim Hodges.

People looking for money for politicians are not required to disclose their sources, but everything becomes clear when you consider the information on the financing of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and the registration of lobbyists in 2015.

Clinton has so far become the only Democrat running for president to disclose information about the lobbyists. Two Republican candidates, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Florida Senator Marco Rubio, also disclosed the data. According to this information, Bush received more than $ 228,000 from eight bundlers, and Rubio - $ 133,000 from three bundlers.

Lobbying campaigns in elections are very difficult to avoid. Despite Obama's promises, the New York Times found in 2011 that at least 15 bundlers with close ties to lobbyists participated in the presidential campaign.

Who Supports Clinton?

CNBC Millionaire Survey Results

In May, a CNBC study polled 750 people worth over $ 1 million: about 53% are ready to vote for former Secretary of State and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and only 47% voted for former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.

Clinton is supported by about 91% of Democratic millionaires, 13% of Republican millionaires and 57% of millionaires who do not align their views with the two key US parties.

Moreover, Clinton is especially popular among young millionaires: 70% of them are ready to vote for her.

In fact, Clinton outperforms his main competitor among all demographics of US millionaires. However, experts note that the situation can change quite quickly, given that this category of voters reacts extremely negatively to populist slogans. Moreover, Clinton's "team" may soon reorient its election program towards a more popular voter, which will also scare off millionaires.

Hillary Clinton's election campaign

Hillary Clinton's election campaign was in jeopardy. On April 12, 2015, she officially announced that she would run for the presidency of the United States.

However, Hillary and her husband Bill, the former president of the United States, soon found themselves at the epicenter of a scandal over donations to the Clinton Foundation and the decisions the Clintons made during their service in top US government positions.

In April, Senator Rand Paul, one of the potential Republican candidates for the 2016 U.S. presidential election, made the following statement:

"Leading American publications - New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post - almost simultaneously published articles on individual parts of Peter Schweitzer's book published in May 2015.

Schweitzer has shed light on the Clintons' dubious deals in Haiti, Kazakhstan, Colombia and elsewhere in the wild backs of the global economy. With carefully selected sources and high-profile revelations, Clinton Money asks serious questions about the objectivity of judgment, the possible dependence of decision-making on foreign interests, and most importantly, whether the Clintons are suitable for high government positions. "

Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich

"In 2000, Bill and Hillary Clinton's debts were in the millions. Since then, they have earned more than $ 130 million. Where did this money come from? Many believe that the Clintons have amassed their fortune through lucrative book-writing deals and solid performance accounts. Peter Schweitzer found the sources that actually made the Clintons rich: In Clinton Cash, he traced the path that money went to the Clintons, identifying the links between their personal fortune, the fortune of their "close personal friends." The Clinton Foundation, foreign states, and some of the most senior US officials.

Schweitzer has shed light on the Clintons' dubious deals in Haiti, Kazakhstan, Colombia and elsewhere in the wild backs of the global economy. With carefully selected sources and high-profile revelations, Clinton Money asks serious questions about the objectivity of judgment, the possible dependence of decision-making on foreign interests, and, most importantly, whether the Clintons are the right fit for high government posts. "

One of the potentially most serious blows to Hillary Clinton's position came from the New York Times (NYT). Against the background of the anti-Russian hysteria that erupted in the Western media after the crisis in Ukraine, the topic of indulging Russia's interests is likely to be actively discussed for a long time to come. The NYT study, based on the forthcoming book by Peter Schweitzer, actually claims that the Clinton Foundation helped the Russian corporation Rosatom gain access to 20% of the US uranium mines.

In addition, the Clinton Foundation has pledged not to accept donations from foreign governments while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State. But this did not stop the attraction of millions of dollars from foreigners associated with local governments.

Since Clinton became Secretary of State in 2009, more than a dozen foreign citizens and their foundations and companies have donated between $ 34 million and $ 68 million.Some have also provided direct funding for $ 60 million in charitable projects run by the Clinton Foundation.

The Wall Street Journal tried to interview these foreigners, but they all reported that the money was donated to charity and this is not related to political reasons.

But this bears little resemblance to the truth. Now the fund has promised not to allow conflicts of interest while Hillary is participating in the presidential race, but, apparently, no one is going to fulfill these promises.

The mainstream media, Democratic Party members and the rest of the Trump-loathing world continue to maintain the false narrative of the Russians' hacking attack on the American elections. It doesn't matter that there is no evidence of such an attack, despite more than a year of investigations by the US intelligence agencies, the FBI, and the New York Times and Washington Post sniffer journalists.

It was these media, promoting the version of the Russian hacker attack, that first undermined and then destroyed Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. This was not the only reason for Clinton's defeat. She was a lazy and boring candidate. She ignored voters, especially in the Rusty Belt region, whose support she needed. She ignored the voices of the white working class and instead sought the sympathy of coastal elites, minorities, and some other coalition of victims and disaffected.

And there were the consequences of such a campaign, which ignored or called into question the large sections of the electorate that it needed to win the presidential race. These reasons doomed her to defeat. Which is exactly what happened. The media condoned her self-destructive behavior - they covered up the truth, which only became apparent at about 8 pm on election day. In a world of addictions, the word "indulge" can mean "ignoring the natural consequences of addict behavior." Nothing changes without natural consequences. "The addict who experiences the devastating consequences of the addiction on his life has the most powerful incentives to change."

Hillary had dependence, dependence on power, dependence on the presidential race. The media supported her dependence and protected her from the consequences of her chosen electoral strategy, thereby rejecting any incentives that might cause her to change direction. Ultimately - this is how an alcoholic sinks to the very bottom - the presence of an elephant in the room became obvious to everyone on election day, when states, one after another, began to demonstrate the consequences of her actions.

First there was a narrative. Hillary Clinton is "the smartest woman in the world." President Obama told us, "There has never been such a person - not me, not Bill, no one at all - more suitable to become President of the United States of America." The media, like parrots, repeated this in news programs, panel discussions and in the comments. She was the second coming. We have heard it, and Mrs. Clinton heard it.

And then there was her opponent - a troglodyte, an ignorant caveman with an IQ at room temperature. Tax evader, womanizer and sexual predator. Carnival barker. A fool. The complete opposite of Ms. Clinton. The most unsuitable presidential candidate in history. We've heard it all non-stop on the news broadcasts of the leading TV channels and most cable programs. In panel discussions Sunday morning, Trump's opponents in the Republican establishment echoed this mantra. Ms. Clinton heard it too. And I believed it.

Context

Hillary Clinton's autopsy campaign and Trump's recipes for victory

Carnegie Moscow Center 01/22/2017

Hillary Clinton - President of California?

BBC Russian Service 28.12.2016

Latin America counted on Clinton

Rebelion 11/24/2016
What about opinion polls? Every fashion poll company told us that Clinton would win. With an overwhelming advantage. Both Real Clear Politics and Nate Silver, a survey guru, all agreed that Ms. Clinton had a 90% to 95% chance of winning. And they held that opinion until late in the evening of election day. Finally, the presence of an elective elephant in the room was denied. It's not just about Donald Trump's attractiveness to Central America. But the Clinton campaign, if we continue the analogy with addiction, was in a state of complete intoxication and loss of consciousness - everything that the uncontrollable alcoholic demonstrates was there.

In the recently published book Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign, which explores the behind-the-scenes side of Clinton's presidential campaign, we read: , petty envy, a disrupted priority system, and a lack of a sense of purpose. ”The media created a picture of perfect façade, control and stability, but in reality there was chaos and disorganization.

If the authors of the cited book knew this, then why did the media not know it? And if they knew, then why did they not report it? Why did they try not to notice how Clinton passed out on one of the streets of New York, after which she, like a bag of potatoes, was simply loaded into a waiting minivan? Why didn't anyone discuss her strange tic on her face, her squinting eyes, her dark glasses, her fits of coughing that lasted five minutes?

Voters took notice of these things, despite the best efforts of the mainstream media to cover them up. A classic example of indulging a vicious habit. The alcoholic did not pass out, she just needed to get some sleep. The person addicted to gambling had no problems, she just had no luck. A typical example of indulgence, a relationship of mutual dependence between the media and Clinton, who made great efforts to explain, justify, or hide her failed campaign. Until the evening of November 8, when it became obvious that all this turned into a farce.

Not surprisingly, Hillary Clinton was crushed on election day night, unable to admit defeat or reach out to her supporters. Instead, she sent John Podesta to apologize for the failed campaign. Ms. Clinton listened to the flattering press, she believed in her complimentary articles about how smart she was and how well prepared she was to become president. In an article about Trump being a fool who cannot tie his own shoes. In an article about how America adores her. How she will easily become the mistress of the White House. A crushing victory. Her fate was finally decided.

It was all an artful fantasy invented by the media. A typical example of indulging a drug addict. Excessive press efforts to compensate for Clinton's insufficient efforts. And all the while, a blatantly obvious problem was ignored.

Treatment for an addicted person is a 12-step program. The first step is to acknowledge the problem. In Clinton's case, it's about recognizing that her campaign was unmanageable. She couldn't win. This was obvious to the authors of Unfulfilled. Joe Biden knew this. Michael Moor knew this. Bill Clinton knew this. However, they pretended that everything was fine.

If the media covered her campaign honestly, forcing her leaders to admit that things are far from perfect, and if they made the appropriate adjustment, who knows what the election results would have been. But the train had already left.

Ironically, Trump's contemptuous media played a significant role in his campaign. You can call it karma. You can call it retribution. But as long as the media remains in denial mode, blaming the Russians and James Comey for Trump's victory, history is likely to repeat itself in 2018 and 2020.

Brian Jundef is a physician, journalist and writer. He lives and works in Denver.

InoSMI materials contain assessments exclusively by foreign media and do not reflect the position of the Inosmi editorial board.

Hillary Clinton was born October 26, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Hugh Rodham and Dorothy Howell. She is the oldest child in the family and has two younger brothers, Hugh and Tony.

In 1965, she graduated from Maine High School and attended Wellesley College with a degree in political science.

Her political position changed quite a few times during the sixties of the last year. She was considered a person with a conservative mind and a liberal heart. In 1968 she was elected President of the Wellesley College Government Association.

After graduating from college in 1969 with an honors bachelor's degree in political science, she changed jobs before finding her place at Yale Law School.

In 1970, she was selected to serve on the Subcommittee on Migrant Workers by US Senator Walter Mondale. She then completed an internship in Auckland at the Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein law firm.

In 1973 she received her Juris Doctor degree from Yale University.

Career

In 1974, she was appointed as a member of the Impeachment Investigation Staff in Washington, D.C., advising the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate scandal. The committee's work resulted in the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

In 1974, she became a professor of law at the University of Arkansas. Two years later, she moved to the capital of Arkansas after her husband, Bill Clinton, was named Attorney General of Arkansas.

In 1977, she joined Rose, a law firm specializing in patent and intellectual property rights. In the same year, she co-founded the Arkansas Children's and Family Advocates.

In 1978, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the position of chairman of the board of directors of the legal services corporation. As chairman until 1980, she more than tripled funding for the corporation, from $ 90 million to $ 300 million. In addition, she was the first woman to hold this position.

With the appointment of Bill Clinton as governor of Arkansas in 1979, she became the first lady of Arkansas for twelve years, from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992. She was appointed Chair of the Rural Health Advisory Committee and was given the mandate to provide health services to the poorest areas.

In 1983, she took control of the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee. During her tenure, she worked to improve the educational standard and made teacher testing compulsory. In addition, she set government standards for curriculum and class sizes.

For six years, from 1982 to 1988, she headed the New World Foundation. From 1987 to 1991, she served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Bar Association's Commission for Women in the Profession, Fighting Against Gender Inequality.

First lady

With the appointment of Bill Clinton as President of the United States in 1993, she became the First Lady of the United States.

According to most Americans, she played an active role in public policy and was often considered the "president in a skirt."

As First Lady, she was named head of the National Health Care Reform Team in 1993, which was designed to make employers responsible for providing health care to their employees. However, due to a lack of support, the reform was rolled back in 1994, which led to a drop in popularity for Democrats and the possible rise of Republicans in the House and Senate elections.

In 1997, she developed the Government Supported Children's Health Insurance program. In addition, she promoted immunization, mandatory mammography for women, and funded research on prostate cancer and childhood asthma.

As first lady, she has visited 79 countries, including India and Pakistan.

Political career

She competed for a seat in the US Senate from New York State and won by a huge margin, was sworn in on January 3, 2001. She became the first wife of the President to be elected to the US Senate from New York State.

During her tenure as a senator, she strongly supported the military action in Afghanistan and the strengthening of state security after the 9/11 attacks.

In 2007, she announced her intention to run in the 2008 presidential election, becoming the first woman to be nominated by a major party. Despite losing the election to Barack Obama, she was nevertheless appointed Secretary of State.

As Secretary of State, she continued to advocate for women's and human rights. In addition, she actively advocated American military intervention in Libya. Hillary resigned from this position on February 1, 2013.

Presidential Campaign 2016

In April 2015, Clinton officially announced her candidacy for the presidency in the 2016 elections. She faced strong rival from Democratic Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, but emerged victorious in this fight and was officially nominated by the Democrats in July 2016.

Vying for the presidency against business tycoon Donald Trump of the Republican Party, she led the presidential race for much of 2016 according to polls.

During her campaigns, she based her economic philosophy on inclusive capitalism. She also called for a constitutional amendment that would reverse the 2010 Citizens United decision. She supports the right to same-sex marriage and equal pay for equal work. Given the regular scandals surrounding her opponent Donald Trump, it looked like Hillary Clinton could easily win the presidential election. However, this did not happen and on November 8, 2016, she lost the presidential election to Trump.

Personal life

You will be surprised to know that Hillary Clinton was once a Republican. During the 1964 presidential election, she served on the team of Republican candidate Barry Goldwater. In 1968, she switched sides and ran for Democratic presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy. By the way, they both lost.

Politics was not Hillary Clinton's first love. She wanted to be an astronaut and even wrote to NASA about her dream. But NASA responded that they do not accept women.

Besides being a former first lady, Hillary Clinton has several other "firsts" to her name. She is the first presidential wives to be summoned to court and fingerprinted by FBI agents.

Hillary Clinton is a Grammy Award winner. She won the 1997 Best Spoken Word Album award for her audiobook "It Takes A Village".

Hillary Clinton is the most restless secretary of state. During her four-year tenure, she traveled to 112 countries and spent about a quarter of her term in the air.

She was a member of the President's Impeachment Commission during the Watergate scandal in 1974. As a result of the scandal, President Nixon resigned later that year.

Huma Abedin is a Muslim woman raised in Saudi Arabia with Islamist relatives and a confidant of Hillary Clinton with 20 years of experience. Her husband is a former sex addict congressman who molested an underage girl. FBI on the eve of elections hangs one after another accusations of serious crimes to the presidential candidate. This is not a plot of cheap pulp fiction, but the realities of the current US presidential campaign.

There are only a few days left before the US presidential elections. But Clinton's victory, which seemed inevitable a week ago, suddenly became much more fragile. The reason is that in recent days another wave of incriminating evidence has fallen upon her, and not from the Republicans or other public forces that dislike her. "Huma Abedin is one of the most interesting and mysterious people around Hillary Clinton."

No, a new blow, or rather a whole series of attacks against Clinton, was dealt by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which: - gave "high priority" to the investigation into the Clinton Foundation;

Found no evidence of Trump's ties to Russia;

Clinton reopened the mail scandal case.

As a result of the tangle of scandals, Huma Abedin, one of the most interesting and mysterious people around Hillary Clinton, came to the focus of attention of law enforcement agencies and the media (and not for the first time).

A Muslim woman of mixed Indian-Pakistani roots. She was born in Michigan, but at the age of two she moved with her family to Saudi Arabia, from where she returned to the United States only to study in college.

In 2012, five members of Congress from the Republican Party accused Abedin of the fact that three members of her family (her father, mother and brother, who had died by that time) are closely associated with the Islamist organization Muslim Brotherhood. The accusations were unfounded and expressed in such harsh language that the scandal hit first of all at the congressmen themselves, although they refused to withdraw their statements.

This topic has surfaced again during the current election campaign. Accusations of links with Islamists this time turned out to be directed at Huma Abedin herself. According to a media investigation, she was the editor of a radical Muslim publication in Saudi Arabia run by her mother. However, the name of the magazine was not indicated, and the accusations again hung in the air, not reaching the goal. In addition, Khuma has a fairly reliable defense against all accusations of Islamism. In 2010, she married a Jewish-born politician Anthony Wiener and gave birth to a son with him in 2011. Radical Islam does not fit well with Judaism, at least in the eyes of the general public.

True, her husband provided Abedin with a lot of problems along a different line. The politician and former congressman got into sex scandals over and over again sending women obscene letters and photographs, which, in fact, buried his political career. As a result of another high-profile disclosure of the sexual adventures of her husband, Hum left him at the end of August 2016.

All this could be considered not interesting to the majority of trifles - you never know scandalous personalities with a dubious background are being wiped out in high political circles. However, Huma Abedin is much more than a political adventurer with unclear goals; for twenty years she has been Hillary Clinton's right-hand man, confidant and closest aide. She began working for her at the age of 19, while the Clintons were in the White House. Bill Clinton personally conducted the marriage ceremony for Huma and Anthony, and Hillary has publicly said several times that she considers her to be her second daughter.

As a result, all these tangled threads were pulled into a single dead knot on October 28, when the FBI reopened the "mail case" against Clinton, the plot of which is more like a Hollywood thriller. The FBI, investigating a sex case against Anthony Wiener (this time he sent an intimate photo 15-year-old girl), discovered on his (and Huma Abedin's) computer Hillary Clinton's correspondence.

This means that Huma lied under oath when she swore to Congress that she gave the FBI all the devices that could store Hillary's emails.

The content of the letters found is unknown, but the very fact of the "bombing" 11 days before the election allows her opponents to use this topic to the maximum, as well as ask questions about how and why Hilary's correspondence ended up in her assistant's computer and how Hum and her husband used it. On the one hand, this whole story gives rise to conspiracy theories about how an Islamist working for the Saudis infiltrated the Clintons' trust and penetrated the very heart of American democracy, but on the other, it may be even worse.

The Clintons' strong ties and good relations with Saudi Arabia have long been no secret. The accusations of Saudis financing Hillary's presidential campaign have remained unconfirmed. However, they are known to have been extremely generous with the Clinton Endowment. The question of how the pre-election and family funds correlate in reality remains open.

In this situation, the Muslim assistant with strong connections in Saudi Arabia no longer looks like a “sent Cossack”, but a reliable employee who is trusted to handle the most “delicate” cases from the point of view of ethics and law.

Considering the number of dark cases of the Clinton family and Hillary personally uncovered in recent months, the assumption does not seem fantastic. Rather remarkable is that Anthony Wiener went to the clinic for sex addiction treatment. The reference to psychological and mental ill health is a traditional US way to avoid unwanted communication with law enforcement and judicial authorities. It seems that the husband of Huma Abedin believes that the intentions of the FBI against Clinton (and at the same time against him and his wife) are extremely serious.

P.S. "There are many pussies around your presidential campaign" (Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov)