Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
by Jonathan Allen
View on GoodreadsWhy weren't working-class white voters with her? Clinton kept asking her staff, and Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes answer that the loss grew inside her own campaign: a candidate who never settled on why she was running, a data operation that ignored warnings, and authority spread too thin for anyone to take control.
Core ideas
- Data against instinct: Robby Mook's analytics approach clashed with senior advisers who preferred conventional methods, and some Clinton associates tried to have him removed.
- Ignored warnings: Bill Clinton urged the campaign to court suburban and rural swing voters and warned about slipping working-class support, and was disregarded.
- A disputed portrait: Campaign spokesperson Christa Reynolds disputed the picture of a divided staff, and the authors stood by their reporting.
Published2017
Pages558
ISBN9780553447095
ReadMay 2025
