Vox interviews Hillary Clinton on the election, health care, Trump, and more

In a recent interview with Vox’s Ezra Klein, Hillary Clinton made it clear she thinks some states’ restrictive voter ID laws could be to blame for her loss of the presidency in 2016. She specifically blames Wisconsin’s voter ID law:

This isn’t the first time Clinton has alleged that voter suppression happened in Wisconsin, a state she lost by 22,748 votes in the 2016 general election. In addition to her interview with Vox, she talked about voter suppression in her book and other interviews earlier this year. She said a new voter ID law in Wisconsin that went into effect under Republican Gov. Scott Walker kept about 200,000 people from voting.

The fact that 53 percent of white women voters cast their votes for Donald Trump in November has been a source of consternation, shame, and anger in the months since, as many Americans wondered how so many white women could vote for a man who bragged about grabbing women by the genitals. Now Hillary Clinton is offering her theory.

She believes James Comey’s October announcement that the FBI would further investigate the handling of her emails while she was secretary of state especially hurt her with women, she told Vox’s Ezra Klein in an interview Tuesday morning. After Comey’s announcement, men could turn to their wives or girlfriends and say, “I told you, she’s going to be in jail. You don’t wanna waste your vote.” And women voters who might have been on the fence decided not to vote for Clinton. “Instead of saying, ‘I’m taking a chance, I’m going to vote,’ it didn’t work,” Clinton said.

On page 239 of What Happened, Hillary Clinton reveals that she almost ran a very different campaign in 2016. Before announcing for president, she read Peter Barnes’s book With Liberty and Dividends for All, and became fascinated by the idea of using revenue from shared natural resources, like fossil fuel extraction and public airwaves, alongside revenue from taxing public harms, like carbon emissions and risky financial practices, to give every American “a modest basic income.”

Her ambitions for this idea were expansive, touching on not just the country’s economic ills but its political and spiritual ones. “Besides cash in people’s pockets,” she writes, “it would be also be a way of making every American feel more connected to our country and to each other.”