Hillary Clinton’s daughter Chelsea popped the champagne after the polls closed – and before her mom’s stunning loss to Donald Trump, according to a new book.
‘Chasing Hillary,’ by New York Times reporter Amy Chozick, who covered both of Clinton’s presidential campaigns, cites anonymous sources to say it was even French bubbly: Veuve Clicquot.
‘Things were already looking bad when, several people told me, Chelsea Clinton popped the Champagne,’ Chozick writes, according to a preview in the New York Times.
Chelsea Clinton popped a bottle of champagne before her mom was declared the loser in the 2016 election, according to a new book. She called the report ‘false’
‘It was just after 9 p.m. on election night and she was having her hair and makeup done in the family’s suite at the Peninsula hotel. She stopped to pour what someone said was Veuve Clicquot into everyone’s glasses, figuring that in a couple of hours Donald Trump’s run of early victories in red states (West Virginia, Oklahoma, Alabama) would end and the map would turn back in her mom’s favor.’
The candidate’s daughter immediately denied the claim.
‘Hi @amychozick!’ she wrote on Twitter. ‘The 1st line (“Things were already looking bad when Chelsea Clinton popped the Champagne”) is false. I would have been happy to tell you that if you’d asked, which you didn’t. Looking forward to the correction once you fact check. Thanks!’
She then denied having poured Italian sparkling wine as well, retweeting another commenter, whose handle is ‘Bitcoins and Scotch,’ who wrote mockingly that ‘IT WAS PROSECO PEOPLE.’
DRINK UP –BUT NOT BEFORE WISCONSIN COMES IN: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton samples wine in a wine cellar before a dinner at Adjarian Wine House in Batumi June 5, 2012
Chelsea Clinton called the report ‘false’
Clinton also denied pouring another bubbly beverage, and trolled a critic from ‘wherever you are’ urging them to have a ‘splendid day!’
Clinton hit back. ‘Hi Bitcoins and Scotch! No. It’s a gorgeous day in New York. Hoping you are enjoying equally beautiful weather wherever you are. Have a splendid day!’
The toast, if it happened, came just minutes before one of history’s great upsets. At 10:21, Clinton lost Ohio. Florida went to Trump at 11:30. And two gut-wrenching hours later, Pennsylvania gave Trump an unassailable lead with a 1-percent squeaker.
The proseco joke could have been a dig at campaign chair John Podesta, who was revealed in a hacked email to have bailed out on a ‘Girls’ night’ event with Communications Director Kristina Schake he would have to ‘bail’ on their plans.
‘You like prosecco as much as I do so sorry to miss you!’ she responded jovially.
During the slog of a campaign reporters trailing Clinton jokingly referred to as a death march, the candidate’s constant evocation of ‘Everyday Americans’ soon drew quips both among the press and her own campaign team.
When Chelsea Clinton sought a private plane to do a campaign event for her mom, Clinton campaign chair John Podesta quipped: ‘She’s not an Everyday American,’ according to the book.
In other nuggets in the campaign book / memoir, Hillary Clinton’s campaign held a strategy session on how to build up Donald Trump when he was a reality TV star hurling insults at rival Republicans, according to a new campaign book.
The agenda for a Clinton campaign meeting early in the primaries sent out by campaign manager Robby Mook was titled: ”How do we maximize Trump?’ according to a new book by New York Times reporter Amy Chozick, who spent years covering Clinton’s two campaign.
EVERYDAY PEOPLE: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton with her daughter Chelsea Clinton at a rally November 8, 2016 in Raleigh, North Carolina
It was a strategy borne of the belief that Trump would torch fellow Republicans, then be easier to beat than more traditional candidates like Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, or Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
Vice President Joe Biden, who had a fundraising network and Pennsylvania roots that helped connect him to some of the voters Clinton once ham handedly mocked as ‘deplorables,’ confided he stayed out of the race partly out of concern to what Clinton’s vaunted network would do to him.
‘Biden had confided (off the record) to the White House press corps that he wanted to run, but he added something like ‘You guys don’t understand these people. The Clintons will try to destroy me.,” Chozick writes, the Daily Beast reported.