re: Hillary Clinton Shares the Speech She Would’ve Given If She Defeated Donald Trump

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NBC obtained a preview of Clinton’s MasterClass where she begins by pulling out her speech and telling the camera “I’ve never shared this with anybody. I’ve never read this out loud. But it helps to encapsulate who I am, what I believe in, and what my hopes were for the kind of country that I want for my grandchildren, and that I want for the world, that I believe in that is America at its best.” She also tied it to the theme of resiliency by explaining “I’m going to face one of my most public defeats head-on by sharing with you the speech I had hoped to deliver if I had won the 2016 election.”

Clinton proceeds to read through the speech, describing a unified America, her vision for the nation’s future, and the significance of America electing the one who could’ve been its first woman president. She became most emotional during the portion of her speech where she speaks of what it would’ve been like to go back in time and tell her mother, Dorothy Howell Rodham, she would overcome the hardships in her life, and her child would become the president.

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