Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton speaks at the IBEW Local 11 union hall during a campaign event in Commerce, California, May 24. | Getty Clinton: Brexit won't have 'direct impact' on campaign

Hillary Clinton sees parallels between the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union and the U.S. presidential election but dismissed the notion that the Brexit vote will have any significant impact on her campaign.

The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee acknowledged an undercurrent “that it’s just not working for a significant group of people” in advanced economies and democracies. Clinton said she hoped for the best when it came to Brexit referendum “but feared the vote that actually came through” — a shocking 52 percent to 48 percent vote to leave the EU.


“I worried that the campaign to stay in the E.U. was not as emotionally effective in making their case, as the campaign to leave,” Clinton said, according to an interview conducted with the former secretary of state on Monday but published Tuesday on LinkedIn.

“But I'm no expert on British elections, so I was disappointed, but not surprised,” she continued. “Because it's clearly their decision, but there's been a lot of second guessing and a lot of regret being expressed now that I think shows that the campaign never really fully answered a lot of the issues that the country would have to face if they voted to leave.”

Clinton, however, said she didn’t see the Brexit vote having a “direct impact” on her campaign.

“I do agree, though, with the analysts who are saying, ‘Look, the leave campaign just told all kinds of false tales’ and advertised on buses and in posters a lot of what they said would happen,” Clinton said. “And then, as soon as the vote came in, it was like: ‘Just kidding, you know, we don't really think we'll get £350 million to put in the National Health Service. And you know, we still are going to have immigrants coming from non-E.U. countries’ and on and on.”

Clinton suggested the “Remain” campaign fell short because it didn’t challenge the “Leave” campaign’s “wrong, misleading claims” — a mistake she stressed that her campaign won’t make.

“Now we're not sitting around letting Donald Trump say whatever he wants to say, we are responding to what he does say, we are pointing out his intemperate and unqualified presence for being our commander-in-chief,” she said. “And so, I think we are doing what needs to be done in a campaign, where you're running against someone or some people who will say anything without regard to the truth.”

Clinton, appearing alongside Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday in Cincinnati at their first campaign event together, accused the billionaire businessman of boasting about “how the disruption could end up creating higher profits” for his new golf course in Scotland in the wake of the Brexit vote.

“He tried to turn a global economic challenge into an infomercial,” she said.