Hillary says 'Misogyny played a role' in her 2016 defeat

Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said on Thursday that misogyny "played a role" her 2016 defeat.

"Certainly, misogyny played a role," Clinton said at the Women of the World Summit in New York. "I mean, that just has to be admitted. And why and what the underlying reasons were is what I'm trying to parse out myself."

Her comments marked a rare reflection by Clinton on a presidential contest that many pundits and pollsters expected her to win with ease. In a question and answer session, the former secretary of state painted the election cycle as a period of overwhelming change and tumult, and said that the prospect of electing the first woman president may have exacerbated a sense of uncertainty among many voters.

"I think in this election there was a very real struggle between what is viewed as change that is welcomed and exciting to so many Americans, and change which is worrisome and threatening to so many others," Clinton said. "And you layer on the first woman president over that and I think some people, women included, had real problems."

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