The Article, Hillary blames election loss on Russia. Pelosi blames pro-life Christians commencesWASHINGTON, D.C., May 3, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Two major female voices in the Democratic Party continued to discount the self-destructive nature of the party’s fervent abortion stance.
In interviews this week, former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton blamed the FBI for her loss in November and repeated the well-worn, disputed notion of Russian election interference. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi hung the Democrats’ defeat on “evangelicals and the Catholics” who are “anti-marriage equality and anti-choice.”
Clinton charged that FBI Director James Comey’s October 28 letter informing Congressional leaders the FBI would investigate whether the State Department emails she sent on her private server contained classified material caused her election loss, along with “Russian WikiLeaks.”
The former Secretary of State and New York senator conceded an imperfect campaign, according to CNN, but expressed belief that she lost “because of “intervening events in the last 10 days” of the election.”
“ … I was on the way to winning until a combination of Jim Comey’s letter on Oct. 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off,” she told the network’s Christiane Amanpour. “If the election had been on Oct. 27, I would be your president.”
Pelosi tried to play down DNC Chair Tom Perez’s recent statement that abortion was “not negotiable” for Democratic candidates to earn party backing. She vowed that members of the party could be pro-life, but expressed doubt they would be successful.
“This is the Democratic Party,” Pelosi told Washington Post reporters Tuesday. “This is not a rubber-stamp party.”
The California Congresswoman proceeded with an account of her “staunchly Democratic” upbringing that included elements of devout Catholicism.
“Most of those people — my family, extended family — are not pro-choice,” she stated. “You think I’m kicking them out of the Democratic Party?”
Her comments to NBC’s Chuck Todd last month were a precursor to her saying Tuesday that values are what unites Democrats. But she tied this to working families – not abortion.
In Tuesday’s interview, she attempted at one point to paint abortion in a different light.
“It’s kind of fading as an issue,” Pelosi told The Washington Post. “It really is.”
This conflicted, though, with her telling the Post that Democrats’ stance on social issues cost them the presidency.
“You know what?” queried Pelosi. “That’s why Donald Trump is president of the United States — the evangelicals and the Catholics, anti-marriage equality, anti-choice. That’s how he got to be president. Everything was trumped, literally and figuratively by that.”
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