” story continued below clinton again argued that the letter former fbi director james comey sent to congress about her private email server just more than a week before the election was what prompted her to lose hillary clinton does n’t believe she or her campaign made any significant mistakes in the 2016 election . senator and u.s. senate , has been rented . in 2016 , clinton became the first woman nominated for president by a major u.s. political party ; she won the national popular vote , earning the support of nearly 66 million americans . hillary clinton on wednesday broadly spread around the blame for her loss in last year ’s presidential election , pointing to suspected russian cyberattacks , the democratic national committee ’s data operation and a “ very broad assumption that i was going to win . “ if you look at facebook , the vast majority of the news items posted were fake , ” clinton told kara swisher and walt mossberg , made a point to say that she took responsibility for her campaign and “ every choice ” she made , as she has in other public appearances this year . you can follow our live blog of clinton spoke from the annual code conference in rancho palos verdes , california . but speaking at the code conference on wednesday , she had a long list of others she blames for her defeat .