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Former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday that newly elected President Donald Trump had won the 2024 race “fairly,” in contrast to what he said was still an illegitimate result in 2016.

“This time, Donald Trump won the race, fair and square,” Clinton said.The view,and added, “I think.”

In an appearance on the ABC talk show, the ex-president was reminded by co-host Joy Behar that he wrote in his memoir that he was so outraged by the loss of his wife Hillary Clinton in 2016 that he could not sleep.

“How are you sleeping now?” Behar asked, referring to Trump’s defeat of the vice president Kamala Harris. “What’s going to happen now?”

Bill Clinton will appear on “The View” on December 11, 2024.

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“I sleep better now because I did everything I could for the alternative,” he said. “But I also think it’s important for everyone to take a deep breath and say that unlike in 2016, there was no outside influence like the FBI director stepping in at the last minute, contrary to 70 years of policy, and that there is a change of 5% has occurred. in the polls) overnight.”

The Clintons have repeatedly blamed then…FBI Director James Comey In late October 2016, a letter reopened the investigation into her use of a private email server as a critical factor in her narrow loss to Trump.

President Clinton said Wednesday that he had never seen such a rapid election turnaround in his lifetime. Nevertheless, Hillary Clinton was widely favored by pundits running in that year’s election to defeat Trump, despite Comey’s letter to Congress about the investigation.

“Anyone who says he didn’t give Trump the election should —” he said Monday, closing.

A side by side of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. (AP images)

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In this year’s election, however, Clinton said Trump won fairly, or at least he thought so.

“I’m not like (Trump). I need some evidence to file charges, so as far as I know he won it, and there are a lot of reasons why,” he said.

The former president called on the party to observe a peaceful transition of power working with Trump and Republicans whenever possible.

“I don’t think we should just harass them, even though they often do that to us,” he said. “I think it’s a mistake.”

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Clinton served as governor of Arkansas before successfully running for president in 1992, building a coalition of both rural and urban voters. A generation later, rural working-class voters have fled the Democratic Party in droves.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks during a Get-Out-The-Vote rally for Vice President Kamala Harris on the first day of early voting in North Carolina in Durham, North Carolina, October 17, 2024. Harris subsequently lost the election . (Photo by Logan Cyrus / AFP) (Photo by LOGAN CYRUS/AFP via Getty Images)

Asked about regaining that part of the voting base on the show, Clinton said Democrats tend to write off certain groups based on demographics and likelihood of support.

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“We need to stop yelling at each other and listen to each other,” he said.