They don't understand persuasion,' Allen said during an ABC News podcast at the time of the book's release, adding that Bill advised Hillary's campaign to visit suburban and rural areas where Hillary likely would not garner most of the votes. 'He thought, these eggheads don't really know politics. Journalists Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen made the claim in their 2017 book, 'Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign,' which received pushback from former Hillary staffers. HILLARY CLINTON SAYS BIDEN'S AGE IS A LEGITIMATE ISSUE: 'PEOPLE HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO CONSIDER IT'ĭemocrats have tapped Hillary Clinton to help with President Biden's re-election efforts. In perhaps Hillary's biggest blunder during the 2016 election, she notoriously faced widespread criticism for not campaigning enough in Midwestern states, which many believe swung the election to former President Donald Trump.īut during the election, Bill allegedly urged Hillary's campaign not to neglect those areas, pleas that ultimately 'fell on deaf ears,' ABC News reported. Another book alleged that he had warned them not to ignore swing states. However, this was not the first time Bill Clinton allegedly chastised Hillary's campaign. 'Former president Bill Clinton, surveying the landscape and the ham-handed efforts at identity politics, was bereft, lamenting to a longtime friend in the fall of 2016 that Hillary's campaign 'could not sell p- on a troop train,'' Grim wrote in the book.

Grim appears to be the first to report the remarks in a portion of his book examining the communication efforts of her campaign and then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. 'DEEP, DEEP TROUBLE': DEMS REPORTEDLY BRINGING IN HILLARY CLINTON TO HELP WITH BIDEN'S RE-ELECTION The statement from Bill Clinton, which he allegedly made to a close confidante during the fall of 2016, coincidentally came to light as Democrats reportedly tapped Hillary to help with Biden's re-election efforts. Former President Bill Clinton had a few choice words about his wife Hillary's disastrous efforts during the 2016 election cycle, according to a new book.Ī passage in 'The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution' by The Intercept's Ryan Grim, which was released last week, says the former president allegedly tore into his wife's campaign for being ineffective communicators and, more specifically, said they could not sell 'p- on a troop train.'

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