Nov 8, 2017

Donna Brazile says Hillary Clinton "cult" lost due to arrogance

Then-Democratic National Committee Vice Chair Donna Brazile speaking during the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in 2016. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite / AP

Former DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile agreed with MSNBC's Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski Wednesday morning that Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election due to her "arrogance," per The Washington Free Beacon. Brazile added Clinton's team "was a cult…you could not penetrate them."

"I want my party to come back from this stronger," Brazile told Morning Joe. "I like what Tom Perez is doing. I know he said this is not about my book. Baby, I know this is not about my book…it's about making much-needed changes and reform inside the party."

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Bill Clinton slams McConnell and Trump: "Their first value is power"

Former President Bill Clinton on Sunday called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) vow to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg's vacant Supreme Court seat before the next presidential inauguration "superficially hypocritical."

The big picture: Clinton, who nominated Ginsburg to the court in 1993, declined to say whether he thinks Democrats should respond by adding more justices if they take back the Senate and the White House in November. Instead, he called on Republicans to "remember the example Abraham Lincoln set" by not confirming a justice in an election year.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday that President Trump was rushing to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg because he "wants to crush the Affordable Care Act."

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Democrats' Armageddon option

A makeshift memorial outside the Supreme Court yesterday. Photo: Jose Luis Magana/AFP via Getty Images

Furious Democrats are considering total war — profound changes to two branches of government, and even adding stars to the flag — if Republicans jam through a Supreme Court nominee, then lose control of the Senate.

On the table: Adding Supreme Court justices ... eliminating the Senate's 60-vote threshold to end filibusters ... and statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico. "If he holds a vote in 2020, we pack the court in 2021," Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) tweeted.

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