Bill Clinton ripped Hillary’s 2016 campaign in vulgar outburst, new book claims

Former President Bill Clinton reportedly ripped his wife’s 2016 presidential campaign as having poor communication, using a vulgar analogy to describe his frustration.

The former president told a friend that Hillary Clinton‘s campaign communications were not meeting the mark to win the race, according to new book The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution by journalist Ryan Grim.

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“Former president Bill Clinton, surveying the landscape and the ham-handed efforts at identity politics, was bereft, lamenting to a longtime friend in the fall of 2016 that Hillary’s campaign ‘could not sell p**** on a troop train,'” Grim wrote.

Hillary Clinton’s ineffective campaign messaging was one of several things blamed on her upset loss to Republican Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Her husband, who was elected to two terms as president, was reportedly frustrated with the campaign’s lack of reaching out to some suburban and rural areas that may not vote for Hillary Clinton, according to ABC News.

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One of the most infamous blunders from Clinton’s 2016 campaign was her not campaigning in Wisconsin during the general election, as pollsters had projected she would win the state which had not voted for a Republican in the presidential race since 1984. Trump upset her in the Badger State, winning by roughly 22,000 votes.

The revelation from Grim’s book also comes as reports suggest the former secretary of state along with the former president are stepping up as surrogates for President Joe Biden’s 2024 reelection campaign, with Hillary Clinton hosting a fundraiser in Washington, D.C., which reportedly racked up $1 million for Biden’s reelection campaign.