By Luciana Lopez and Ginger Gibson
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
Hillary Clinton blamed FBI director James
Comey for her stunning defeat in
Tuesday's presidential election in a
conference call with her top campaign
funders on Saturday, according to two
participants who were on the call.


Clinton was projected by nearly every
national public opinion poll as the heavy
favorite going into Tuesday's race.
Instead, Republican Donald Trump won
the election, shocking many throughout
the nation and prompting widespread
protests.


Clinton has kept a low profile since her
defeat after delivering her concession
speech on Wednesday morning.


Clinton told her supporters on Saturday
that her team had drafted a memo that
looked at the changing opinion polls
leading up to the election and that the
letter from Comey proved to be a turning
point. She said Comey's decision to go
public with the renewed examination of
her email server had caused an erosion of
support in the upper Midwest, according
to three people familiar with the call.


Clinton lost in Wisconsin, the first time
since 1984 that the state favored the
Republican candidate in a presidential
election. Although the final result in
Michigan has still not been tallied, it is
leaning Republican, in a state that last
favored the Republican nominee in 1988.
Comey sent a letter to Congress only days
before the election announcing that he
was reinstating an investigation into
whether Clinton mishandled classified
information when she used a private email
server while secretary of state from 2009
to 2012.


Comey announced a week later that he
had reviewed emails and continued to
believe she should not be prosecuted, but
the political damage was already done.
Clinton told donors that Trump was able
to seize on both of Comey's
announcements and use them to attack
her, according to two participants on the
call.


While the second letter cleared her of
wrongdoing, Clinton said that reinforced
to Trump's supporters that the system
was rigged in her favor and motivated
them to mobilize on Election Day.


A spokesperson for the FBI could not
immediately be reached for comment.
On the phone call, Dennis Chang, who
served as Clinton's finance chair, said her
campaign and the national party had
raised more than $900 million from more
than 3 million individual donors,
according to the two participants who
spoke to Reuters.


(Reporting by Ginger Gibson in
Washington and Luciana Lopez in New
York; Editing by Leslie Adler)

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Comey didn't kill ur chance
Obama did with his actions

blame game