Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stopped NBC’s Savannah Guthrie for asking whether or not Russia “elected Donald Trump.”
Rice and Philip Zelikow were interviewed on Today Wednesday morning about their new book on the Cold War titled To Build a Better World: Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth.
Guthrie asked, “When you look at the 2016 election and you look at how, relatively speaking, it was decided by a handful of votes in a few states, do you think it’s possible that Russia’s election interference actually worked? It actually elected Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton?”
“I don’t think there’s any evidence of that,” Rice countered. “I think that really does devalue the people in Wisconsin and Michigan and others who decided to vote for President Trump. Whether you like this president or not, whether you believe that he should have been president or not, let’s give the credit to the Americans who went out and voted for somebody who they thought would bring change.”
The former Bush cabinet member continued, “The question is, are we going to be responsive to some of the messages that were out there … People who felt that they were disadvantaged by globalization, the unemployed coal miner in West Virginia, the opioid-addicted person in Pennsylvania, are we going to be responsive to those people?”
