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Al Gore Rises From The Dead, Still Blames Bill Clinton — And Hillary — For His Loss In 2000

   DailyWire.com

Two-time loser Hillary Clinton won’t go away, Bill Clinton is back with a vengeance (and not in a good way), and now we have to endure Al Gore, too!? C’mon, universe!

A new book, “First In Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents and the Pursuit of Power,” says Gore still blames Bill Clinton for his defeat by George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election.

Gore felt Clinton’s impeachment over committing perjury “cast a permanent shadow on their joint accomplishments” and so degraded his stature that Americans couldn’t support him. What’s more, Gore’s team believed Clinton “did not want Gore to succeed,” writes author Kate Andersen Brower.

Gore also blames Hillary, the Daily Mail reports.

The two men were like “brothers” but their friendship turned to animosity in part due to Hillary Clinton clashing with Gore as she built her own power base in the White House.

As Gore sees it there has been “no closure” on the feud and he only endorsed Hillary in a Tweet four months before the 2016 election amid panic from Democrats.

The new book says “Gore is overstating their closeness — and the reality is that their relationship began to go ‘Shakespearean’ as the presidency went on, in no small part due to Hillary.”

Gore found himself facing off with “the most powerful first lady in American history”, who did not want to play second fiddle to him in the West Wing.

Even in 1992, when Clinton and Gore and their wives went on a campaign bus trip, Hillary’s close friend and scheduler Susan Thomases tried to kick the Gores off the bus.

Roy Neel, Gore’s chief of staff in the Senate, said that Hillary was “dismissive of then-senator Gore during a conference call, basically calling Al’s idea to continue the bus trip ‘stupid’.”

Gores’ wife, Tipper, was more mad at Clinton for his affair with Monica Lewinsky than Hillary was, The New York Post wrote.

“Tipper Gore was furious at Bill Clinton,” author Kate Andersen Brower told The Post.

Today, Al Gore still bristles when asked about his relationship with Hillary Clinton – who many characterized as Bill Clinton’s co-president, diminishing Gore’s role as veep.

“I expected him to say Hillary Clinton and I had a great working relationship,” Andersen Brower told The Post. Instead, “he thought the interview might have to be cut short,” she wrote in the book.

In the run-up to the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin, had warned campaign chairman John Podesta and aide Cheryl Mills that Gore had said in 2015 that he wouldn’t be giving Hillary Clinton his endorsement.

Mills then offered that Gore might change his mind. “No. [It’s] bad,” Abedin replied in an email, which was part of the hacked conversations put online by Wikileaks.

Will these people ever go away?!

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