{"id":1098445,"date":"2021-12-08T12:13:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T17:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1098445"},"modified":"2021-12-08T12:13:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T17:13:39","slug":"hillary-clinton-on-verge-of-tears-reads-2016-victory-speech-years-after-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillary-clinton-on-verge-of-tears-reads-2016-victory-speech-years-after-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton, On Verge Of Tears, Reads 2016 \u2018Victory Speech\u2019 Years After Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhillary-clinton-on-verge-of-tears-reads-2016-victory-speech-years-after-loss%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1098445&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton grew emotional as she read a portion of her planned 2016 victory speech as part of a new talk on the power of resilience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this lesson, I\u2019m 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,\u201d the former secretary of state said in an excerpt of her upcoming MasterClass lesson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/news\/politics\/hillary-clinton-reads-parts-victory-speech-hoped-deliver-2016-rcna8003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared<\/a> with TODAY.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never shared this with anybody. I\u2019ve 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,\u201d Clinton said.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton said the speech would have been given on <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/10\/02\/hillary-election-serious-person-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">election<\/a> night in 2016 if she had won and not <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/11\/09\/donald-trump-defeats-hillary-clinton-wins-presidential-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lost to former President Donald Trump<\/a>. In the speech, she speaks of how democracy in the U.S. is strong, noting that voters rose to the challenge of choosing \u201cunity\u201d and \u201cdecency.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.5330739299611\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">For the first time, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HillaryClinton<\/a> is sharing the speech she would have made if she had won the 2016 presidential election. Watch more of the conversation on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SundayTODAY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SundayTODAY<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WillieGeist?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WillieGeist<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iRLbKUGINc\">pic.twitter.com\/iRLbKUGINc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TODAY (@TODAYshow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TODAYshow\/status\/1468573299772952579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Clinton would have also addressed becoming the first female president and its significance to the country. She argued in the speech that her victory would have changed the \u201cface\u201d of American democracy forever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve met little boys and girls who didn\u2019t understand why a woman has never been president before,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is a victory for all Americans. Men and women. Boys and girls. Because as our country has proven once again, when there are no ceilings, the sky\u2019s the limit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the video, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/04\/clinton-foundation-hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-decrease-donations-corruption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clinton<\/a> becomes visibly emotional as she starts to talk about her mother, who faced enormous hardships growing up and died in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou may have heard me talk about her difficult childhood. She was abandoned by her parents when she was just 8 years old,\u201d she said. \u201cThey put her on a train to California where she was mistreated by her parents and ended up out on her own, working as a housemaid.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/11\/hillary-clinton-never-out-of-game-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018I Will Never Be Out Of The Game Of Politics,\u2019 Says Hillary Clinton)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes I think about her on that train,\u201d Clinton said. \u201cI dream of going up to her, and sitting down next to her, taking her into my arms, and saying, \u2018Look at me. Listen to me. You will survive. You will have a good family of your own. And three children. And as hard as it might be to imagine, your daughter will grow up and become the president of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clinton\u2019s Masterclass will be released on Sunday, TODAY noted. Former President George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush will also be featured in a video about lessons in principled decision-making next year.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton grew emotional as she read a portion of her planned 2016 victory speech as part of a new talk on the power of resilience.\u201cIn &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}