Trump, Clinton aides feud at Harvard event: Why the bitterness continues

Clinton now leads the national popular vote by more than 2.3 million votes.

The two campaigns faced each other for probably the last time on Thursday at a traditional election aftermath event, the Campaign Managers Conference at Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

Palmieri had been talking about the appeals to fear and division, the Muslim ban and – as one Clinton campaign operative put it – racially tinged “dog whistles” used by Trump and his campaign.

Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manager, denied using racist messaging.

She also credited Vermont U.S. Sen. Mook waffled. Tapper followed up by asking how Bill Clinton was feeling now after the loss, and Mook stayed on message: “I think he’s very upset about that letter from James Comey”. Voters also didn’t trust her, she said.

“I can tell you are angry, but wow”, Conway said.

“If I made one mistake it was legitimizing the way the press covered this storyline”, Mook said.

“How in the world did we have a female candidate whose closing arguments were so negative?” she inquired.

Bannon formerly oversaw Breitbart, an alt-right publication with articles frequently touting mysginy and racism. “But reminding everybodywhat the president-elect said last week”, she continued, “He’smoving on to focus on thefuture, not the past and he hassaid to The New York Times onthe record he thinks that theClintons have suffered enough.Of course, the Department ofJustice, the differentcommittees, the Federal Bureau of Investigation perhaps can takea different look, but nobodyexpects and nobody is talkingabout that right now”.

To the irritation of Trump officials, the Clinton team argued that the results have not given Trump a mandate to govern. Bernie Sanders and Sen. She’s Donald Trump’s third campaign manager this election cycle. At one point when Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio was saying that the Clinton campaign had failed to understand the fact that 70% of voters believed the country was on the wrong track, her Campaign Manager Robby Mook interrupted: “We won the popular vote”. Bernie Sanders, a Democratic primary challenger, for helping “soften up” Clinton and paving the way for Trump’s victory. She was obsessed with Donald Trump. “That’s very clear today”.

Bannon, who served as the Trump campaign’s chief executive and will be Trump’s senior strategist in the White House, was under fire from the time he joined the campaign in August over his alleged ties to the “alt-right”.

Palmieri: “It did. Kellyanne, it did”.

But while Conway has no qualms about occasionally disagreeing with Trump, she remains fiercely loyal to the future Commander-in-Chief.

“The Ku Klux Klan is unacceptable and he needs to say that” Mook said to resounding applause. He especially thanked Conway for coming to Harvard, an institution with a liberal reputation.

Winners, from either side get to bask in the glow of victory after every election.

Since 1972, Harvard University in MA has hosted top campaign managers and aides from each presidential election to dissect the transition – but Thursday night’s (1 December) event unearthed simmering bitterness across the divide.