The defeated 2016 candidate has read aloud what she would have said in victory – joining a cast of thwarted speechmakers
It was one of the most significant branching points in recent history – and at least one artefact of the way things might have been still exists.
On Wednesday the Today show in the US released a video of Hillary Clinton reading the speech she would have given if she had beaten Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Clinton, who is giving a course in “the power of resilience” with the online education company Masterclass, teared up as she read aloud from her speech. She said reading it entailed “facing one of my most public defeats head-on”.