Top 10 Hillary Clinton Quotes Which Lost Her the Election

5. April 18, 2016: “Hot sauce…Is it working?”

One of the biggest election day issues Clinton found herself experiencing is that she was not able to turn out black voters at anywhere near the rate which President Obama had. While of course, some of this can be attributed to the fact that Obama was the first black President, Clinton’s failures were in spite of being married to the man often jokingly known as the “first black President.” Nonetheless, Mrs. Clinton found herself seeking out black voters throughout 2016 in many ways seen as disingenuous.

This was no more on display than during an interview with some black radio DJs wherein they asked an item which Clinton always has in her purse. She responded with “hot sauce,” a condiment glamorized in Beyonce’s hit song “Formation” and stereotypically enjoyed by black Americans. When one host stated that she would be accused of pandering to black people with this answer, Clinton jokingly asked, “Is it working?” Though after the fact, some attempted to justify that Clinton’s answer was both truthful and authentic, both comments were at the very least not well-thought-out.