Why I Lost the US Presidential Election to Donald Trump - Hillary Clinton Finally Opens Up

After losing the closely contested US Presidential elections to Donald Trump recently, Hillary Clinton has finally explained why she fell short.
Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton, the former Democratic presidential
nominee, has spoken out on why she lost the election.
She blamed Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI)
Director James Comey for her defeat in Tuesday’s
presidential election.
According to Reuters, Mrs. Clinton said in a conference
call with her top campaign donors on Saturday that Mr.
Trump was able to seize on both of Mr. Comey’s
statements and used them to attack her, according to
two participants on the call.
According to the participants who were on the call, Mrs.
Clinton told her supporters on Saturday that her team
had drafted a memo that looked at the changing opinion
polls leading up to the election and that the letter from
Mr. Comey proved to be a turning point.
The memo prepared by Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, a copy
of which was seen by Reuters, said voters who decided
which candidate to support in the last week were more
likely to support Trump than Clinton.
“In the end, late breaking developments in the race
proved one hurdle too many for us to overcome,” the
memo concluded.
Mrs. Clinton was projected by nearly every national
public opinion poll as the heavy favourite going into the
race but Republican Donald Trump won the election,
shocking many throughout the nation and prompting
widespread protests.
Mrs. Clinton has kept a low profile since her defeat after
delivering her concession speech on Wednesday
morning.
She said Mr. Comey’s decision to go public with the
renewed examination of her email server had caused an
erosion of support in the upper Midwest, according to
three people familiar with the call.
Mrs. Clinton lost in Wisconsin, the first time since 1984
that the state favoured a Republican candidate in a
presidential election.
Although the final result in Michigan has still not been
tallied, it is leaning Republican, in a state that last
favoured the Republican nominee in 1988.
Mr. Comey sent a letter to Congress few days before the
election announcing that he was reinstating an
investigation into whether Mrs. Clinton mishandled
classified information when she used a private email
server while secretary of state from 2009 to 2012.
The FBI’s director announced a week later that he had
reviewed emails and continued to believe she should
not be prosecuted, but the political damage was already
done.
While the second letter cleared her of wrongdoing, Mrs.
Clinton said that reinforced to Trump’s supporters that
the system was rigged in her favour and motivated them
to mobilise on the election day.
A spokesperson for the FBI could not immediately be
reached for comment.
On the phone call, Dennis Chang, who served as
Clinton’s finance chair, said her campaign and the
national party had raised more than $900 million from
more than three million individual donors, according to
the two participants who spoke to Reuters.