DNC data guru denies Hillary Clinton's claim she "inherited nothing" from DNC
Andrew Therriault, the former director of data science for the Democratic National Committee, said Hillary Clinton's claim that she "inherited nothing" from the DNC is totally off base.
Earlier this week at a media and technology conference in California, Clinton claimed the Democratic Party didn't give her the data-related resources she needed, sparking a brutal response from Therriault on Twitter.
"DNC data folks: today's accusations are f***ing bull****, and I hope you understand the good you did despite that nonsense," Therriault tweeted Wednesday in a series of tweets that have since been deleted but were captured by other news outlets.
"Private mode be damned, this is too important," Therriault said in another tweet. "I'm not willing to let my people be thrown under the bus without a fight."
Clinton's comments Wednesday resurfaced responses from her critics that Clinton still isn't owning her loss to now-President Donald Trump. Clinton she wasn't a "perfect" candidate, but that isn't why she lost, blaming everything from the Democrats' data operations to the media covering her email scandal like "Pearl Harbor."
"I get the nomination, so I'm now the nominee of the Democratic Party," Clinton said at the coding event. "I inherit nothing from the Democratic Party. I mean, it was bankrupt. It was on the verge of insolvency. Its data was mediocre to poor, non-existent, wrong. I had to inject money into it."
In her speech, Clinton also praised the Republican National Committee's operations and former RNC chairman -- now White House chief of staff -- Reince Priebus.
The Republicans, Clinton said, "raised, best estimates are close to $100 million. They brought in their main vendors."
Back in February, Therriault authored a Medium post titled, "We shouldn't blame data for bad campaign messaging," saying data is a campaign tool, not a campaign strategy.
