Conway: I hope Hillary Clinton finds self-awareness soon

Kellyanne Conway slammed Hillary Clinton Thursday for blaming outside forces for her November election loss, with the White House counselor saying that she hopes Clinton finds “self-awareness” soon.

“Yes, it was her fault she lost,” Conway told members of the New York State Conservative Party, according to Politico. “I have found the hard way that a gift all women can give to themselves is self-awareness, and I hope she finds some soon.”

Conway’s comments followed Clinton’s Wednesday Q&A session at Recode’s Code Convention, which saw the former Democratic presidential nominee rip the Democratic National Committee, saying it was “bankrupt” and “on the verge of insolvency” when she became the party’s nominee.

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“So I’m now the nominee of the Democratic Party. I inherit nothing from the Democratic Party,” she said. “I mean, it was bankrupt. It was on the verge of insolvency. Its data was mediocre to poor, nonexistent, wrong. I had to inject money into it.”

Conway, who served as Trump’s campaign manager in the final months of the race, put the blame for the loss squarely on Clinton, whom she called “the most joyless candidate in presidential political history.”

Conway recalled how she once feared that Clinton “was actually going to wake up one day and say ‘You know what guys… today is the day I’m actually going to have a message.’”

“My fears never came true,” Conway said.

Clinton was widely projected by pundits and pollsters to win the November 2016 election, but ultimately fell to President Trump after he made surprise wins in key states such as Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan. 

Since then, Clinton has said that she takes responsibility for the loss. But she has also sought to place blame on Russian hackers’ publication of Democratic emails and former FBI Director James Comey’s late-October announcement that his agency was reopening its investigation into her use of a private email server as secretary of State.