Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, won’t discuss whether he agrees with failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s recent comments about the 2016 election.

Fox News Special Report’s Bret Baier confronted Perez about Clinton’s assessment of her 2016 election defeat during a talk in India this week, and Perez refused to disavow the remarks.

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According to India Today, Clinton claimed, “I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward. And his whole campaign – ‘Make America Great Again’ – was looking backwards.”

Mocking Trump’s campaign, Clinton said “You know, you didn’t like black people getting rights. You don’t like women getting jobs. You don’t want to see that Indian-American succeeding more than you are. Whatever your problem is, I’m going to solve it.”

Clinton also claimed women who voted for Trump were brainwashed by “ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should.”

Baier posed the question to Perez: “Do you agree with Hillary Clinton and how she phrased this election 2016?”

Perez wouldn’t give a straight answer.

“Well, uh, you know, I, uh, Donald Trump is the president of the United States, even though Hillary won the majority, she won more votes than Donald Trump,” he said. “He won the Electoral College, she won the popular vote. I accept that. He’s the president of the United States.”

Clinton was in India over the weekend to hawk her book “What Happened” when she reflected on the 2016 election during a talk at the India Today Conclave in Mumbai. It was the latest stop in a months-long tour aimed at reliving the election and casting blame for her defeat on Trump, Republicans, voters on both sides, her own party, women, misogyny, former FBI Director James Comey, and a long list of other factors.

In the 16 months since Trump trounced Clinton in what’s considered one of the most embarrassing upsets in presidential politics, Clinton has spent very little time reflecting on her own mistakes, such as skipping over key states like Michigan, Wisconsin, and others.

“I won the places that represent two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product,” Clinton told her audience in India.

“If you look at a map of the United States, there is all that red in the middle, places where Trump won,” she said. “I win the coast. I win, you know, Illinois and Minnesota, places like that.”

Longtime Clinton aide Patti Solis Doyle offered an honest critique of her former boss’s remarks during a segment with HLN’s S.E. Cupp, host of Unfiltered.

“This was bad. You know, I can’t sugarcoat it,” Doyle said. “She was wrong, and clearly it’s not helpful to Democrats going into the midterms and certainly not going into 2020.

“She’s put herself in a position where Democrats are going to have to distance themselves from these remarks and distance themselves from her, particularly those Democrats that are running in the states that Donald Trump won, like Ohio and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and Michigan.”

Clinton’s comments during the 2016 election referring to Trump supporters as “deplorables” served to ignite opposition against her campaign, and many Democratic strategists believe the most recent comments will play into the 2018 midterms.

Doyle and it’s obvious Clinton is having trouble letting go of the 2016 election, and she would prefer it if Clinton sulked in the shadows.

“It seems to me she’s still … struggling with coming to terms on how she lost and why she lost, you know, which is human and normal, particularly this kind of level of loss,” Doyle said. “But I do wish she would stop doing it so publicly.”

“She’s annoying me. She’s annoying everyone, as far as I can tell,” an unnamed 2016 Clinton surrogate told The Hill. “Who lets her say these things?”

Others echoed Doyle’s concerns about the impact this fall.

“She put herself in a position where (Democrats) from states that Trump won will have to distance themselves from her even more,” an unidentified former Clinton staffer said. “That’s a lot of states.”