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Hillary Clinton identifies yet another group that cost her the election

By Becket Adams
Published May 3, 2018 1:49pm ET
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Hillary Clinton identifies yet another group that cost her the election
FILE - In this April 8, 2014, file photo, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in San Francisco. Clinton writes in her new book that the Obama administration demanded the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in every discussion it ever held with the Taliban about prisoners. The former secretary of state also says in the book, "Hard Choices," to be released Tuesday, that she recommended that President Barack Obama end the decades-long U.S. embargo on Cuba to force Fidel and Raul Castro into democratic change. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File) | Ben Margot

When Hillary Clinton said “they were never going to let me be president,” who was the “we”? The list is long, and Wednesday, the former Democratic nominee added another item: Socialists.

That is, the former secretary of state believes that it was her own love for capitalism that kept many hard-left Democrats from voting for her.

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2016 Elections Bernie Sanders Capitalism Hillary Clinton Socialism