Bill Clinton takes side on Donald Trump’s election victory

Former President Bill Clinton expressed this weekend that he sensed “all the so-called swing states would cast their votes as a bloc” in the recent election, and he wasn’t taken aback by Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential race.

“At least this time, there is no question that he actually won both the popular vote and the Electoral College,” Clinton said, referring to Trump losing the popular vote in 2016 when he faced Clinton’s wife, Democrat Hillary Clinton. In 2024, Trump won all seven swing states: Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Nevada.

In the interview with Jonathan Capehart that aired on MSNBC over the weekend, Clinton suggested “the late intervention” of FBI director James Comey’s investigation into his wife’s private email server she used while she was secretary of state helped Trump win. Hillary Clinton said last month in an interview that Vice President Kamala Harris had a better shot at the presidency than her because she didn’t have Comey “waiting in the wings to kneecap her.”

That didn’t matter, however, for Harris, because she ultimately lost to Trump earlier this month.

“There’s been a lot of change for people to digest,” Bill Clinton said, “a lot of economic adversity and upheaval, a lot of political upheaval, a lot of social developments. And if you think about it, some of the votes that happened in the last election are people who are just exhausted by uncertainty and tired of carrying it around. And that always helps the right.”

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In that same interview, Bill Clinton responded to Trump’s Cabinet picks, saying Trump is interested in loyal people.

“We have to listen to Donald Trump,” Bill Clinton said. “He’s been very forthright about how to use the law. He’s interested in people who are loyal to him 100% of the time, no matter what the issue, no matter what the facts, no matter who gets hurt.”