Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said during a leadership conference this week that her chances of winning the 2016 presidential election were hurt because she was a capitalist.
Clinton, who made the remarks at the Shared Value Leadership Summit, said that being a capitalist hurt her because so many Democrats are “socialists.”
“You may be the only presidential candidate since World War II that actually had to stand up and say, ‘I am a capitalist.’ And you did. Did it hurt you?” asked Alan Murray, who is the Chief Content Officer for Time Inc.
“Probably,” Clinton replied. “It’s hard to know, but if you’re in the Iowa Caucuses and 41 percent of Democrats are socialists or self-described socialists, and I’m asked, ‘Are you a capitalist,’ and I say, ‘Yes, but with appropriate regulation, appropriate accountability,’ you know, that probably gets lost in, ‘Oh, my gosh, she’s a capitalist!'”
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