Former communications director for Hillary Clinton Jess McIntosh stated on MSNBC Friday that Donald Trump’s election was both a “sexist reaction” to Hillary and a reaction to a black president.
McIntosh remarked, “…2016 was not just a sexist reaction to having a woman nominee. It was the backlash to having eight years of a black president and that’s why we saw that intersection of vitriol reach the level in 2016. It was the twofer–and that backlash created something like Donald Trump being able to rise the way he did.”
The panel was focused on Clinton’s comments in her new book “What Happened,” in which she openly blames sexism for her 2016 election loss. (RELATED: Hillary Blames Voters’ Sexism For 2016 Loss In New Memoir)
In the book, Clinton asks, “What makes me such a lightning rod for fury? I’m really asking. I’m at a loss,” before answering, “I think it’s partly because I’m a woman.”
McIntosh has previously referred to herself as a, “liberal, half-Mexican, half-queer New Yorker who’s spent her adult life in progressive feminist politics.”
She made headlines after the 2016 election for blaming Clinton’s loss on the “internalized misogyny” of white women. (RELATED: GET THIS: Now Hillary’s Campaign Is Saying She Lost Because WHITE WOMEN ARE ‘MISOGYNIST’ [VIDEO])