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Hollywood director Spike Lee told the Hollywood Reporter Hillary Clinton thought she was entitled to the presidency and didnt work for it. Lee mentioned a book, "Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign," and one of the co-authors, Jonathan Allen, believes Lee is spot on.

It was absolutely something she believed going into the stretch that she should have been doing better against Donald Trump and she believed on Election Day that she was going to win, Allen said on the FOX Business Networks Varney & Co.

Allen says Clinton was so confidentthat she went over her victory speech early on election night, but never practiced her concession until much later.

The book's authors argue Clinton focused too much on raising money in places like Martha's Vineyard, instead of doing the legwork of traveling the country and speaking to voters.

Amie Parnes, my co-author and I report in our book about how she spent some time at Sag Harbor with Jimmy Buffett and Paul McCartney when she was raising money in August," Allen said. "Sort of making fun of her for not being on the campaign trail, when [Trump] was, she was out raising money, he was out there talking to voters. I think in part in parcel what Spike Lee was talking about.

He also said there were consequences to giving Clinton a reality check.

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She surrounds herself with people who have difficulty telling her shes doing something wrong, he said citing an example from his book were she goes off on her favorite aide. They are doing a debate prep session and shes just lost the Michigan primary and hes correcting her and saying look you might want to try this a different way, thats not quite working and she lashes out at him and says you know what, why dont you try it, and she makes him for 30 minutes play her in the debate prep.

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Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonClinton: I dont die despite the rights best efforts Clinton: Comey firing is an effort to derail and bury Russia probe RNC slams Clinton speech as example of 'why she lost' MORE has established a new organization called Onward Together that will provide support to groups, causes and candidates to oppose President Trump and the far-right agency of Republicans in Congress. Clinton's new organization is registered as a 501(c)(4) under the Internal Revenue Service rules, which allows it to receive donations and use the money to support progressive groups and candidates in the 2018 and 2020 elections and beyond.

Onward Together could set the stage for a Clinton presidential campaign in 2020, as pro-Clinton groups established before the 2016 campaign ultimately morphed into her formal campaign. Or, it could become a potent force supporting another nominee by mobilizing a significant number of former Clinton aides, staff, donors and political operatives to raise a war chest and create an organizational powerhouse that goes after Trump and Republicans in Congress, beginning with the 2018 midterms.

Clinton's major new group is a positive development, for the same reasons that I have strongly supported Our Revolution, the Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill's 12:30 Report Five takeaways from the Montana special election Hillary Clinton targets troubled Trump, divided GOP with new PAC MORE-affiliated group that is doing so much to promote progressive values, causes and candidates.

The 2018 campaign has already begun. Trump and Republicans in Congress are pushing hard for a horrifically unpopular healthcare bill that would be a disaster for millions of Americans and lead to 23 million citizens losing their insurance plans. They are imposing cruel pain on the poor by seeking aggressive cuts to important and popular programs Medicaid, Meals on Wheels, SNAP while they push hard for big tax cuts benefiting the wealthiest Americans.

Clinton and Sanders' respective organizations Onward Together and Our Revolution have growing memberships to mobilize resources, promote citizen involvement and civic action and inspire and support new progressive candidates.

Hillary Clinton should smile at the thought that the many individuals and organizations that her group is going to support will inspire citizens to attend town meetings of Republicans in Congress and ask the tough and embarrassing questions about their cruel and damaging proposals! It is exciting and refreshing to watch the resistance to Trump rising from citizens who fervently believe in a higher standard of government and politics in Washington and state capitals.

As Republican scandals proliferate and citizens learn about the damage and dangers of far-right proposals, the opposition grows, the resistance rises, the people mobilize and change is coming.

The Republicans wanted a one-party Washington where they control the presidency, the House and the Senate. Now they have it and must take the responsibility for it. All Democratic candidates represent the party of change and all Republican candidates represent the party of the Donald TrumpDonald TrumpMajor golf tournament opens at Trump National Golf Club in Va. Pence to Navy grads: Trump 'will always have your back' Do we want healthcare or health insurance? MORE Republican status quo.

Hillary Clinton has created Onward Together which brings powerful reinforcements to the resistance.

Brent Budowsky was an aide to former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas) and Rep. Bill Alexander (D-Ark.), then-chief deputy majority whip of the House. He holds an LL.M. in international financial law from the London School of Economics. He can be read on The Hills Contributors blog and reached at brentbbi@webtv.net.

The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the views of The Hill.

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Some news organizations have beefed up their ranks with conservative voices since the 2016 presidential election, a response Hillary Clinton said is misguided.

The cable networks seem to me to be folding into a posture of, Oh, we want to try to get some of those people on the right, so maybe we better be more, quote, evenhanded, Clinton said in an interview with New York magazinepublished Friday.

Author Rebecca Traister described how Clintons brow furrows upon mention of climate changes skepticsBret Stephens and George Willrecently joining The New York Times and MSNBC, respectively.

Whywouldyoudothat? Sixty-six million people voted for me, plus, you know, the crazy third-party people, said Clinton, who won the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes. So theres a lot of people who would actually appreciate stronger arguments on behalf of the most existential challenges facing our country and the world, climate change being one of them! Its clearly a commercial decision. But I dont think it will work. I mean, theyre laughing on the right at these puny efforts to try to appease people on the right.

Clinton also jabbed at The New York Times for recently launching a feature encouraging people toSay Something Niceabout President Donald Trump:I never saw them do that for me.

Looking back on the 2016 race, Clinton said she underestimated the impact of WikiLeaks publishing unflattering emails from members of the Democratic Party. The U.S. intelligence community has since concluded that Russian hackers stole the messages.

Emails dripped out daily in October in a fashion that wasinnocuous, boring, inconsequential, Clinton said yet people played like it was some breathless flash. She said conservative media outlets amplified the contents of the emails, but added that the mainstream pressplayed its own role in giving the documents outsize attention.

Look, we have an advocacy press on the right that has done a really good job for the last 25 years, Clinton said.They have a mission. They use the rights given to them under the First Amendment to advocate a set of policies that are in their interests, their commercial, corporate, religious interests. Because the advocacy media occupies the right, and the center needs to be focused on providing as accurate information as possible. Not both-sides-ism and not false equivalency.

Read Traisters full piece here.

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(CNN)Hillary Clinton's ongoing struggle to deal with the revelation that she used a private email server during her time as secretary of state dominated the conversation about her presidential candidacy, and research suggests it might have doomed her campaign, according to a new study by a consortium of pollsters released over the weekend.

Here's what people had read, seen or heard about Clinton looks like in a word cloud (the bigger the word, the more often it was mentioned):

As you can see, "email" drowns out every other term mentioned about Clinton. It was, without question, the dominant narrative of the election for her -- at least in the five months that this paper documents. And, according to the study, the mentions of email correlate directly to negative views of Clinton.

There's nothing to match the Clinton "email" mentions. And although some of the most commonly mentioned words are negative storylines for Trump -- "women," most notably -- there's a lot of more neutral mentions: "debate," "people" and "president." This speaks to the theory that by throwing so many balls up in the air every day -- via his stump speeches, Twitter, etc. -- Trump made it impossible for anyone to follow all of them. Everything seemed like a molehill. Even the mountains.

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What's more, the word "email" came up more and more in the final weeks of the election -- particularly in the wake of then-FBI Director James Comey's announcement in late October that he was re-starting an investigation into Clinton's server.

Here's the word clouds broken into a week-by-week timeline of the last month of the campaign. Again, the larger the word appears, the more it was mentioned as something people had seen, read or heard about Clinton or Trump.

Not only did "email" dominate the conversation around Clinton, it dominated the entire conversation in the race. From October 23 on, Trump is barely talked about -- an amazing feat for someone so willing to make news.

This study will be used by liberals as evidence that the media's unnecessary focus on Clinton's email server cost her the election.

I'd agree that Clinton's email server played a decisive role in deciding the election. But I wouldn't agree with the idea that the media is responsible for it.

After all, it was Clinton who never seemed to grasp the seriousness of the issue and how it eroded the public's already shaky confidence in her. Her inability to do those things meant she was never able to put the story behind her. And then the Comey announcement came, which undoubtedly surged the issue back to the top of many voters' minds.

Whatever the reasons, when people thought of Clinton in the final weeks of the race, they thought of her emails. And that was a very bad thing for her.

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The U.S. intelligence community has long since concluded Russia meddled in the 2016 election, and it was reported shortly after the 2016 presidential election that a GOP superPAC linked to Paul Ryan used illegally hacked material to attackDemocratic House candidates. But a bombshell report published on Thursday confirms that Republican political operatives were working with the Russian government to hurt Hillary Clinton and Democrats during the election the first direct evidence of so-called collusion.

The Wall Street Journal reported that hacked information was posted on a blog run by Aaron Nevins, the political operative, and then passed along to top Trump adviser Roger Stone during the campaign. The Republican operative in Florida received a trove of Democratic documents from the allegedly Kremlin-linked hacker, Guccifer 2.0. For months, both Congress and the FBI have been scrutinizing evidence that associates of Trump may have colluded with Russiaduring the campaign.

Nevins confirmed to the Journal that he told hacker Guccifer 2.0 to feel free to send any Florida based information after learning that the hacker had tapped into Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) computers last summer. From the DCCC, Guccifer 2.0 released internal assessments of Democratic congressional candidates, known as self-opposition research, to GOP operatives using social media. Nevins told the Journal that, after receiving the stolen documents from the hacker, he realized it was a lot more than even Guccifer knew that he had. The stolen DCCC documents also contained sensitive information on voters in key Florida districts, breaking down how many people were considered dependable Democratic voters, undecided Democrats, Republican voters and the like. Nevins made a war analogy, describing the data he received to Guccifer 2.0 as akin to a map to where all the troops are deployed.

After Nevins published some of the material on the blog HelloFLA.com, using his own pseudonym, Guccifer 2.0 sent a link of the information to close Trump associate Roger Stone who is currently under federal investigation for potential collusionwith Russia.

I just threw an arrow in the dark, Nevins, who set up a Dropbox account for Guccifer 2.0 to transfer data, told the Journal. If your interests align, the operative concluded, never shut any doors in politics.

Stone told the Journal that while he did receive a link to Nevinss blog from Guccifer 2.0, he didnt share the stolen data published on the blog with anyone.

In addition to receiving hacked information about Democratic races in Florida, Nevins also received internal detailsabout congressional districts in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. The Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC with close ties to House Speaker Paul Ryan, eventuallyused the material that was stolen by hackers in attack ads against several Democrats.

Anthony Bustamante, a Republican campaign consultant for Rep.Brian Mast (R-FL), told the Journal that he used the stolen information to plan ad buys and better target a mailer effort: I did adjust some voting targets based on some data I saw from the leaks.

Republicans ignored Democrats pleas not to use the hacked material for political gain.

After Guccifer 2.0 targeted thechair of the DCCC, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to Paul Ryan arguing that the NRCCs use of documents stolen by the Russians plays right into the hands of one of the United States most dangerous adversaries, and if the National Republican Campaign Committee continued using the materials, the GOP will be complicit in aiding the Russian government in its effort to influence American elections. Ryan never responded.

For his part, Trump has repeatedly denied any coordination with Russian officials. The Kremlin has also rejected any connection to Guccifer 2.0. But both the Department of Homeland Security and Director of National Intelligence believe Guccifer 2.0 is tied to Russian military intelligence.

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GOP strategist admits he colluded with Russian hackers to hurt Hillary Clinton, Democrats - Salon