CNN Panel Slams Hillary Clinton for ‘Backwards’ Comments: Don’t ‘Criticize the Voters’

Amid all the big Trump news today, CNN’s State of the Union panel also addressed Hillary Clinton‘s recent comments on the kind of voters that President Trump appealed to.

Clinton spoke of Trump’s “backwards” appeal like this: “You didn’t like black people getting rights? You don’t like women, you know, getting jobs?”

Nina Turner pointed out to Jake Tapper that Ohio, for example, voted for Barack Obama both times, saying it’s “very hurtful” for Clinton to “lump all Ohioans and all people” in like that.

“In politics, we should not criticize the voters,” she added.

Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher agreed and said Clinton’s comment “not only misreads history, it misreads the present moment.”

And Jen Psaki, former Obama White House communications director, noted the “massive flip” in some places from Obama to Trump and said it “doesn’t validate what she said.”

“There was a larger issue with the campaign, how it was run and, frankly, her candidacy,” Psaki concluded.

Watch above, via CNN.

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