Everything Hillary was hearing and seeing pointed to a victory. Even Sullivan, the incorrigible pessimist, thought she was going to win in the final days. Nearly a decade after she’d launched her first campaign for the presidency, the glass ceiling was within Hillary’s reach and the hammer of the American electorate was in her grasp. She would finally get the chance to run the country that she loved. “In those final days she believed she was going to win. And she was probably more bearish than most of us,” said one senior campaign aide. “She was getting comfortable with the idea that it was
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