Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Hillary Clinton suggested that voter suppression in Wisconsin contributed to her 2016 election defeat

Hillary Clinton has told a crowd in a historic black church in Selma Alabama, that the absence of the Voting Rights Act contributed to her 2016 defeat to Donald Trump.

 Hillary stated, “I was the first person who ran for president without the protection of the Voting Rights Act, “I’ll tell you, it makes a really big difference. And it doesn’t just make a difference in Alabama and Georgia. It made a difference in Wisconsin, where the best studies that have been done said somewhere between 40,000 and 80,000 people were turned away from the polls because of the color of their skin, because of their age, because of whatever excuse could be made up to stop a fellow American citizen from voting.”

In Hillary Clinton book, What Happened, she wrote  “In Wisconsin, where I lost by just 22,748 votes, a study from Priorities USA estimated that the new voter ID law helped reduce turnout by 200,000 votes, primarily from low-income and minority areas,”

 Priorities USA is a left-wing organization, which backed President Obama, and Clinton and says that  "the voter ID requirement undoubtedly prevented or discouraged some people from voting. But the report did not attributes all of the decrease in turnout to the ID law, when there are many other reasons that could also explain it, including a lack of enthusiasm for Clinton or Trump, or perhaps a belief that Trump couldn’t win Wisconsin."

 While Politifact cites experts who say that voter ID laws may have reduced turnout, it is far from certain how many people this affected.

 A host of establishment media outlets were declaring victory for Hillary Clinton weeks before the U.S. presidential election.

NPR stated, 
Let's make one thing clear: Three weeks out from this election, Hillary Clinton is winning — and it's not close. Yes, people still have to vote, but if Democratic groups come out — and the Trump scorched-earth campaign is more like a white flag than an actual strategy — Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the United State.

 The latest NPR Battleground Map shows that while Trump's path was always been narrow, now it's nearly nonexistent. The only places where the map has really expanded amid Trump's controversies is into Republican territory.

This type of reporting is voter suppression which was done by all the national media.

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