Hillary received support mainly from middle-aged, older voters, Latin Americans, African Americans. The support of the female half of the country played a big role. Clinton Campaign Highlights: Rise wages, women's rights, LGBT rights and improved health care.

Clinton beat Republican candidate Donald Trump by almost 2.9 million votes (65.84 million to 62.98 million), but won fewer electoral votes - 227 to 304, as a result of which she failed to achieve election to the presidency.

background

Election 2008

January 20, 2007 Clinton announced the start of the election campaign. She was the leading candidate for the Democratic Party until Senator Barack Obama beat her in the South Carolina primary. 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, there were rumors about Clinton's plans to enter the race for the presidency in 2012 or 2016. After leaving the post of Secretary of State in 2013, speculation around the nomination reached its maximum point. At the same time, Clinton earned about $11 million 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 to the elections (Clinton did not deny the rumors).

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

In September 2013, amid speculation about her nomination, Clinton announced that she would not rule out her candidacy in the election, but she did not seriously consider this issue. At the end of 2013, Clinton gave an interview to ABC, where, when asked by Barbara Walters about her nomination, she replied that she was closely monitoring 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 scientists 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

Polls public opinion in early 2015, Clinton was considered the front-runner for the 2016 presidential race. Her 2016 campaign gained more momentum than in 2008, despite once again having to face strong candidates. In August 2015, then-incumbent Vice President Joe Biden stated 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 polled said they didn't know her well enough to speak of her).

Clinton named one of the magazine's 100 Most Influential People Time .

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It was originally planned to delay the announcement of the campaign, 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 gave rise to speculation that the office would become her campaign headquarters.

On April 12, 2015, Clinton released a YouTube video announcing the start of her campaign. She stated that "Americans need a leader" and she is "ready to be that leader". After the campaign was announced, she traveled to small states such as Iowa and New Hampshire. She became the third candidate to announce the start of her presidential campaign, after Ted Cruz of Texas and Pole Rand of Kentucky. Many Democrats saw a benefit for Clinton in the proximity of Hillary Clinton and Mark Rubio 's campaign dates , as Clinton 's campaign announcement could overshadow the launch of Rubio 's presidential campaign .

The campaign logo was introduced on April 12, 2016. It was the letter "H" of the Latin alphabet with a red arrow in the middle, which caused criticism, because red is the color of the Republican Party.

Campaign start

Clinton began the campaign with short trips to small states before the start of the primary. Immediately after the campaign was announced, she made a two-day trip in a stylized Chevrolet Express, nicknamed "Scooby-Doo". The trip started in New York and ended in Iowa. Throughout the tour, stops were made in various cities. The trip received extensive media coverage. mass media.

Clinton barely answered questions from reporters and did not give interviews during the first month of the campaign. In particular, during the tour in the framework 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. She was announced to make 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 family pay, campaigned for equal pay for women, the availability of college education and the encouragement of companies that distribute profits among employees.

The rally organizers announced about 5,500 people, but according to the press, this number was exaggerated.

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

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

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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 should not exist only for the directors and managers of hedge funds. Democracy should not work only for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your job too. You brought them to our country. Now it's time - your time - to build on your gains and move forward.

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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 advertisement featured pictures of Clinton and her deceased mother, which was supposed to symbolize family, women and children.

In reviewing thirty-two Clinton campaign videos, the 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 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 made public. Christopher Steele Orbis Business Intelligence and containing material on Clinton rival Republican Donald Trump's ties to prostitutes during a longtime trip to Russia, his corrupt real estate deals in Russia, and coordinating with Russian intelligence to hack into Democratic Party computers. The New York Times immediately called these 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 was fulfilling her order, paid 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 (indefinite) . 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 (indefinite) . CNN. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
7. Goddard, Taegan Did Hillary Clinton ever stop running for president? (indefinite) . 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 (indefinite) . 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 , The New York Times(August 13, 2015). Retrieved 25 November 2017.
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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 (indefinite) . mother jones(November 8, 2013).
20. 60 Dems endorse Hillary for 2016 (indefinite) . The Hill(January 28, 2014).
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27. Why Hillary Clinton will make 2016 announcement in July .
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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).
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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 (indefinite) .

Elections in America are closely linked to lobbying efforts. The budgets of presidential campaigns are simply huge, 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 seek money for politicians, and not always through legal means ( 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 Clinton money includes several well-known names. For example, Jerry Crawford, a well-known Monsanto lobbyist and an influential person in Iowa, gave about $35,000 to the election campaign, Tony Podesta, a megalobbyist who became one of the founders of the Podesta Group, and his brother John brought 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).

The other group includes former staffers from a team of prominent Democratic politicians (including Bill Clinton) and politicians themselves, such as former South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges.

People looking for money for politicians are not required to disclose their sources, but everything becomes clear when looking at information on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign funding and 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 Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida Senator Marco Rubio, also released the data. According to this information, Bush received over $228,000 from eight bundlers, and Rubio received $133,000 from three bundlers.

The participation of lobbying campaigns in elections is very difficult to avoid. Despite Obama's promises, the New York Times found in 2011 that the president's campaign involved at least 15 bundlers who were closely connected to the lobbyists.

Who supports Clinton?

CNBC Millionaires Poll Results

In May, a CNBC survey polled 750 people worth more than $1 million: about 53% were ready to vote for former Secretary of State and Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton, and only 47% voted for former Florida Gov. 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 demographic sections 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, the Clinton "team" may soon reorient its election program to a more mass voter, which will also scare away millionaires.

Hillary Clinton's election campaign

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

However, soon Hillary and her husband Bill, ex-president The United States found itself at the epicenter of a scandal over donations to the Clinton Foundation and decisions that the Clintons made during their service in senior US government positions.

In April, Senator Rand Paul, one of the potential Republican candidates in the 2016 US presidential election, made the following statement:

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

Schweitzer shed light on the Clintons' dubious dealings in Haiti, Kazakhstan, Colombia and other places in the "wild backyard" of the global economy. Clinton Money, with carefully selected sources and high-profile revelations, 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 to hold high public office.

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 were in debt in the millions of dollars. Since then, they have earned more than $130 million. Where did this money come from? Many believe that the Clintons amassed their fortune through lucrative writing deals and hefty bills for various speeches. Peter Schweitzer uncovered the sources that actually made the Clintons rich: In Clinton Cash, he traced the path the money took to the Clintons, drawing connections between their personal fortunes, the fortunes of their "close personal friends," the Clinton Foundation, foreign governments, and some of the most senior US officials.

Schweitzer shed light on the Clintons' dubious dealings in Haiti, Kazakhstan, Colombia and other places in the "wild backyard" of the global economy. Clinton's Money, with carefully selected sources and high-profile revelations, 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 to hold high public office.

One of the potentially most serious blows to Hillary Clinton's position came in the New York Times (NYT). Against the backdrop 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 exaggerated for a long time to come. The NYT study, based on a forthcoming book by Peter Schweitzer, actually claims that the Clinton Foundation helped the Russian corporation Rosatom gain access to 20% of US uranium mines.

In addition, the Clinton Foundation promised not to accept donations from foreign governments while Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state. But that hasn't stopped it from attracting 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 Clinton Foundation philanthropic projects.

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

But this is hardly true. The foundation has now pledged to avoid conflicts of interest while Hillary is running for president, but apparently no one is going to keep those promises.

The mainstream media, members of the Democratic Party, and the rest of the Trump-hating world continue to perpetuate the false narrative regarding the Russian hacking of the American elections. It does not 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 sleuth journalists from the New York Times and the Washington Post.

It was these media outlets that promoted the Russian hacking story 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 the voters, especially in the Rust Belt, whose support she needed. She ignored the white working-class voices and instead courted the coastal elites, minorities, and some other members of the coalition of the downtrodden and the discontented.

And there were consequences of such a campaign ignoring or questioning the significant sections of the electorate that it needed to win the presidential race. These reasons doomed her to failure. What happened. The media connived at her self-destructive behavior—they covered up the truth, which only became apparent around 8 p.m. on Election Day. In the world of addiction, the word "indulge" can mean "ignoring the natural consequences of an addict's behavior." Nothing changes without natural consequences. “The addict who is experiencing the devastating effects of an addiction on his life has the most powerful incentives to change.”

Hillary was addicted, addicted to power, addicted to the presidential race. The media supported her addiction and protected her from the consequences of her chosen electoral strategy, and in doing so, they rejected any incentives that might force her to change direction. Eventually, as the alcoholic sinks to rock bottom, the presence of the elephant in the room became obvious to everyone on Election Day, as one state after another began to show the consequences of her actions.

First there was the narrative. Hillary Clinton is the smartest woman in the world. President Obama told us, "There has never been a person—not me, not Bill, not anyone—more qualified to be President of the United States of America." The media parroted this in news programs, panel discussions, and commentary. She was the second coming. We heard it, and Mrs. Clinton heard it.

And there was also her opponent - a troglodyte, a caveman ignoramus with an intelligence coefficient at room temperature. Tax evader, womanizer and sexual predator. Carnival barker. A fool. The exact opposite of Mrs. Clinton. The most unsuitable presidential candidate in history. We heard it all non-stop on the news broadcasts of the leading TV channels and most cable programs. In panel discussions on Sunday morning, Trump's opponents from the Republican establishment repeated this mantra. Mrs. Clinton heard it too. And she believed it.

Context

Hillary Clinton's Campaign Autopsy and Trump's Recipes for Victory

Carnegie Moscow Center 22.01.2017

Hillary Clinton President of California?

BBC Russian service 12/28/2016

Latin America counted on Clinton

Rebelion 24.11.2016
What about public opinion polls? All the fashion polling companies told us that Clinton would win. With an overwhelming advantage. Both Real Clear Politics and polling guru Nate Silver all agreed that Mrs. Clinton had a 90% to 95% chance of winning. And they held this opinion until late in the evening on the day of the elections. And, finally, the presence of an electoral elephant in the room was denied. It's not just about Donald Trump's appeal to middle America. But the Clinton campaign, if we continue the analogy with addiction, was in a state of complete intoxication and loss of consciousness - there was everything that an uncontrolled alcoholic demonstrates.

In the recently published book Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign, which talks about the behind-the-scenes side of the Clinton presidential campaign, we read: “This campaign was a terrible mess, in which there was a confusing chain of command petty envy, broken priorities and no sense of purpose.” The media created a picture where there was a perfect façade, control and stability, but in reality there was chaos and disorganization.

If the authors of the quoted book knew this, why didn't the media know this? And if they knew, why didn't they 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 sack of potatoes, was simply loaded into a waiting minivan? Why didn't anyone discuss her strange facial tics, her squinting eyes, her dark glasses, her coughing fits that lasted five minutes?

Voters noticed these things, despite the best efforts of the mainstream media to cover them up. A classic example of indulging a vicious habit. The alcoholic didn't pass out, she just needed some sleep. The gambling addict didn't have any problems, she was just unlucky. A typical example of an indulgent, mutually dependent relationship between the media and Clinton, who went to great lengths to explain, justify, or cover up her failed campaign. Until the evening of November 8, when it became obvious that all this had turned into a farce.

Not surprisingly, Hillary Clinton was subdued on the evening of Election Day, unable to admit defeat or reach out to her supporters. Instead, she sent John Podesta to apologize for the failed campaign. Mrs. Clinton listened to the flattery of the press, she believed in her eulogies about how smart she was and how well prepared she was to become president. In articles about how Trump is a fool who does not know how to tie his own shoelaces. In articles about how America adores her. How she will easily become the hostess of the White House. Crushing victory. Her fate was finally sealed.

It was all a clever fantasy invented by the media. A typical example of indulging a drug addict. Excessive efforts on the part of the press to compensate for the insufficient efforts of Mrs. Clinton. And all this time, a blatantly obvious problem was ignored.

Treating an addicted person is a 12-step program. The first step is to acknowledge that there is a problem. In the case of Clinton, we are talking about admitting that her campaign was out of control. She couldn't win. This was obvious to the authors of the book Unfulfilled. Joe Biden knew this. Michael Moore knew this. Bill Clinton knew this. However, they pretended that everything was fine.

If the media had given fair coverage to her campaign, getting her leaders to admit that things were far from perfect, and if they had corrected accordingly, who knows what the election results would have been like then. But the train has already left.

Paradoxically, the media that despise Trump played a significant role in his election campaign. You can call it karma. You can call it reward. But as long as the media remains in denial mode, blaming the Russians and James Comey for Trump's victory, history will likely repeat itself in 2018 and 2020.

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

The materials of InoSMI contain only assessments of foreign media and do not reflect the position of the editors of InoSMI.

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

She graduated from Maine High School in 1965 and attended Wellesley College, majoring in political science.

Her political position changed quite a few times during the 1960s. 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 a bachelor's degree in political science, she went through many jobs before finding a place at Yale Law School.

In 1970, she was selected to serve on the Migrant Workers Subcommittee of U.S. Senator Walter Mondale. After that, she interned in Oakland at the law firm of Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein.

She received her Juris Doctor from Yale University in 1973.

Career

In 1974, she was appointed to the Washington, D.C.-based Impeachment Investigation Team, advising the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate scandal. The committee's work led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

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

In 1977, she joined Rose, a law firm specializing in patent and intellectual property law. That same year, she co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families.

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 the corporation's funding, 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 and was so for twelve years, from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992. She was appointed Chairperson of the Rural Health Advisory Committee and was empowered to provide medical services in the poorest areas.

In 1983, she took control of the Arkansas Educational Standards Board. During her tenure, she worked to improve the educational standard and made teacher testing mandatory. In addition, she set state standards for curricula and class sizes.

For six years, from 1982 to 1988, she headed the foundation " New world Between 1987 and 1991, she served as one of the members of the Board of Directors of the Commission of the American Bar Association on 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 seen as a "president in a skirt."

As First Lady, she was appointed head of the National Health Reform Panel in 1993, which aimed to make employers obligated to provide health care for their employees. However, due to the lack of support, the reform was curtailed in 1994, which led to a drop in the popularity of the Democrats and the possible growth of Republicans in the elections to the House and Senate.

In 1997, she developed the Children's Health Insurance program with government support. In addition, she promoted immunizations, mandatory mammograms for women, and funded research into 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 and was sworn in on January 3, 2001. She became the first wife of a president to be elected to the US Senate from New York State.

While serving as a senator, she strongly supported the military action in Afghanistan and the strengthening of the state's security after the September 11 attacks.

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

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

Presidential Campaign 2016

In April 2015, Clinton officially announced her candidacy for the 2016 presidential election. She faced a strong challenger from Democratic Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, but emerged victorious in that fight and was officially nominated as the Democratic nominee in July 2016.

Having entered the race for the presidency against Republican business mogul Donald Trump, 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 around her opponent Donald Trump, it seemed that 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 presidential elections In 1964, she was 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 said they don't accept women.

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

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

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

She was a member of the presidential impeachment inquiry during the 1974 Watergate scandal. As a result of the scandal, President Nixon resigned the same year.

Huma Abedin - who grew up in Saudi Arabia Muslim woman with Islamist relatives and confidant of Hillary Clinton with 20 years of experience. Her husband is a sexaholic ex-congressman who molested an underage girl. On the eve of the election, the FBI hangs one after another charges of serious crimes against a presidential candidate. This is not a cheap pulp fiction plot, but the realities of the current US presidential campaign.

The US presidential election is just days away. But Clinton's victory, which seemed inevitable a week ago, suddenly became much more shaky. The reason is that on her last days another wave of compromising evidence hit, and not from the side of the Republicans or other public forces that do not like 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 blows to Clinton, was dealt by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which: - assigned “high priority” to the investigation into the case of the Clinton Foundation;

Found no evidence of Trump's ties to Russia;

Reopened the Clinton mail scandal case.

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

Muslim woman with mixed Indian-Pakistani roots. Born in Michigan, at the age of two she moved with her family to Saudi Arabia, from where she returned to the United States only to attend college.

In 2012, five members of Congress from the Republican Party accused Abedin of having three members of her family (father, mother and brother who had died by that time) closely connected with the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. The accusations were unfounded and expressed in such harsh terms that the scandal hit the congressmen themselves first of all, 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 given, and the accusations again hung in the air, without reaching the goal. In addition, Huma has a fairly reliable defense against all accusations of Islamism. She married Jewish politician Anthony Wiener in 2010 and had 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 sexual scandals over and over again with the mailing of obscene letters and photographs to women, which, in fact, buried his political career. As a result of another high-profile exposure of her husband's sexual adventures, Huma parted ways with him at the end of August 2016.

All this could be considered trifles of no interest to most - you never know scandalous personalities with a dubious background are wiped off in high political circles. However, Huma Abedin is much more than a political adventurer with unclear goals. For twenty years she has been right hand, confidant and closest aide to Hillary Clinton. She began working for her at the age of 19, while the Clintons were in the White House. Bill Clinton personally performed 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 the sex case against Anthony Wiener (this time he sent an intimate photo 15-year-old girl), found Hillary Clinton's correspondence on his (and Huma Abedin's) computer.

This means that Huma was lying under oath when she swore to Congress that she gave the FBI all the devices that could have stored Hillary's emails.

The content of the discovered letters 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 on her assistant’s computer and how Huma 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 and penetrated the very heart of American democracy. But on the other hand, things may be even worse.

Strong connections and a good relationship The Clintons with Saudi Arabia have long been no secret. Allegations of Saudi financing of Hillary's presidential campaign have remained unconfirmed. However, they are known to have been extremely generous with the Clinton Charitable Foundation. The question of how pre-election and family funds correlate in reality remains open.

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

Given the number of dark cases of the Clinton family and Hillary personally uncovered in recent months, the assumption does not look fantastic. Rather noteworthy is that Anthony Wiener went to the clinic for treatment of sex addiction. Referring to psychological and mental illness is a traditional way for the United States to avoid unwanted communication with law enforcement and judicial authorities. It seems that Huma Abedin's husband believes that the FBI's intentions against Clinton (and against him and his wife at the same time) are extremely serious.

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