Kellyanne Conway: ‘A little more self-awareness would do’ for team Clinton

Kellyanne Conway, President-elect Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, suggested on Friday that a bit more “self-awareness” might be healthy for Hillary Clinton and Democrats still grappling with Mrs. Clinton’s epic defeat last month.

“I don’t know what her message was to America other than ’I’m not Donald Trump and you shouldn’t vote for him,’” Ms. Conway said on “Fox & Friends.” “I don’t know what her message was to the working-class voters that we captured and the union households that we carried in some places by 2-to-1.”

“I don’t know what her message was to America’s women where she only got 55 or 56 percent of the vote as the first female presidential nominee from a major party,” she said.

On Thursday, Mrs. Clinton decried “fake news” when she returned to the U.S. Capitol for a ceremony honoring retiring Sen. Harry Reid.

“This isn’t about politics or partisanship. Lives are at risk,” Mrs. Clinton said.

Ms. Conway said the most fake piece of news she heard all along was that Mr. Trump couldn’t win.

“Look, I take seriously what she’s saying in terms of people spreading rumors or saying things that aren’t true and possible harm coming to people, but it’s this whole new cottage industry they’re trying to make a big deal of and pin it on one party or one man’s supporters,” she said.

“That I disagree with completely and that has to stop,” she said. “But a little self-awareness would do for a team that is blaming everybody but themselves for this.”

She listed Sen. Bernard Sanders, the “alt-right” movement, fake news, Russia and FBI Director James B. Comey as examples of those who are supposed to have been responsible for Mrs. Clinton’s loss.