Axelrod: Comey 'didn’t tell Hillary Clinton not to campaign in Wisconsin'

David Axelrod said that although Hillary Clinton has a “legitimate beef” with FBI Director James Comey, Comey is not responsible for the mistakes of her campaign.

"Jim Comey didn't tell her not to campaign in Wisconsin after the convention," said Axelrod, who served as former president Barack Obama's adviser, on CNN on Wednesday. "Jim Comey didn't say 'don't put any resources into Michigan until the final week of the campaign.'"


During an interview at an event in Manhattan Tuesday, Clinton said that she takes “absolute personal responsibility” for the loss but said she was “on her way to winning” before Comey and Russia intervened.

Clinton’s interview started a round of commentary on the 2016 campaign, with Trump tweeting late Tuesday that Comey was “the best thing that ever happened” to Clinton as he “gave her a free pass for many bad deeds!”

Axelrod said Clinton shouldn’t shift responsibility for her loss and should move on.

“She said the words, ‘I’m responsible’, but everything else suggested she doesn’t really feel that way,” he said. “And I don’t think that helps her in the long run.”