Two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Wednesday said that misogyny was one of the factors that led to her demise last November when she lost to Donald Trump.
"I never said that I was a perfect candidate, and I certainly have never said I ran perfect campaigns, but I don't know who is or did and at some point it sort of bleeds over into misogyny," Clinton said at the 2017 Code Conference.. "Let's just be honest, you know, people who have a set of expectations about who should be president and what a president looks like, they're going to be much more skeptical and critical of somebody who doesn't look like and talk like and sound like everybody else who's been president."
Recode editor Walt Mossberg asked Clinton about her recent New York Magazine profile piece in which she and other campaign staff were quoted saying that her primary opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), could get angry on the campaign trail, but she couldn't get angry because it would backfire for a woman to get upset or emotional.
"I have been on many speaking platforms with many men who are in office or running for office, and the crowd gets you going and you get up there, and I watch my male counterparts, and they beat the podium, and they yell, and the crowd loves it," Clinton said.
"And a few times I've tried that and it's been less than successful. Let me just say that," Clinton added.
Clinton went on to say that she has been as angry as any of her male counterparts because she feels that the country has gone backwards on economic opportunity, advancements in human rights and civil rights, and health care.