Clinton ‘would be president’ if new Hulu documentary was out before 2016 election, Philippe Reines says

Philippe Reines, who served as senior adviser to Hillary Clinton, said early Tuesday that he believes his former boss “would be president right now” if a new documentary about her came out right before Election Day four years ago.

“There’s just so much she and we can do,” Reines told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “If we had this documentary the day before Election Day in 2016, she would be president right now.”

“When people are open-minded about her, they absolutely will see her in a different way,” Reines added.

The perspective comes after the four-part documentary series directed by Nanette Burstein on the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and her unsuccessful campaign was released on streaming service Hulu on Friday to mixed reviews.

The Clinton documentary, which features more than 2,000 hours of behind-the-scenes footage, currently has a 76 percent critics score out of 100 on the Rotten Tomatoes website, but only a 54 percent score from audiences.

Mashable calls it undoubtedly “historically valuable,” while Buzzfeed says “it’s something more akin to a glossy and meandering pop star portrait, pitched to resonate with the kind of Clinton fans who might purchase her Book of Gutsy Women, rather than a document of women’s history or cultural analysis.”

The Hollywood Reporter concluded it was “more insightful about Hillary the phenomenon than Hillary the person,” with The Washington Post declaring the series to be an “artfully structured personal history of modern feminism.”

Clinton won the popular vote over Donald Trump in 2016 by about 3 million votes, but lost the all-important Electoral College, 304-227.