Hillary Clinton Shares the Speech She Would’ve Given If She Defeated Donald Trump in the 2016 Election

Former secretary of state and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is sharing the speech she would have given five years ago had she defeated Donald Trump in the 2016 election.

Clinton spoke to NBC’s Willie Geist about her decision to unveil the speech for an upcoming MasterClass program on the power of resilience. Clinton’s 2016 defeat was surprising to many political observers, and it was to that point that Clinton reminded Geist she didn’t have a concession speech ready until the day after Election Day.

“What compelled you to sit down and revisit that speech?” Geist asked.

“I wanted to be as helpful as I could to the viewers and to the process of being in a MasterClass,” Clinton replied. “Even though we had a lot of bumps those last ten days, I still thought, you know, we could pull it out.”

NBC obtained a preview of Clinton’s MasterClass where she begins by pulling out her speech and telling the camera “I’ve never shared this with anybody. I’ve never read this out loud. But it helps to encapsulate who I am, what I believe in, and what my hopes were for the kind of country that I want for my grandchildren, and that I want for the world, that I believe in that is America at its best.” She also tied it to the theme of resiliency by explaining “I’m going to face one of my most public defeats head-on by sharing with you the speech I had hoped to deliver if I had won the 2016 election.”

Clinton proceeds to read through the speech, describing a unified America, her vision for the nation’s future, and the significance of America electing the one who could’ve been its first woman president. She became most emotional during the portion of her speech where she speaks of what it would’ve been like to go back in time and tell her mother, Dorothy Howell Rodham, she would overcome the hardships in her life, and her child would become the president.

“I am sure of this as anything I have ever known: America is the greatest country in the world,” Clinton concludes. “And from tonight going forward, together, we will make America even greater than it has ever been, for each and every one of us. Thank you, God bless you, and may God bless America.”

The clip was shown as a preview for a longer interview Geist conducted with Clinton for Sunday TODAY, and the full conversation will air on December 12th.

Watch above, via NBC.