

WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton has no one to blame for her White House defeat but herself, Donald Trump’s campaign manager said Sunday.

“I just can’t believe it’s always somebody else’s fault,” Conway said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Sometimes you just have to take a look in the mirror and reflect on what went wrong.”

Clinton is winning the popular vote, but she lost the Electoral College with stunning defeats in the industrial Midwest and she failed to secure some 5 million of President Obama voters.

Meanwhile, Trump turned out strong support from rural America.

In a call with donors Saturday, Clinton blamed FBI Director James Comey for announcing another investigation into her emails for preventing her from making history as the first woman president. Comey revived the email investigation into her private server 11 days before the election, only to clear her once again two days before Election Day.

“I respect them very much,” Conway said of Clinton’s Brooklyn campaign team. “But they misread America.”

“What about the fact that they just got it wrong?” Conway added. “What about the fact they weren’t in touch with Americans, and the cultural zeitgeist, and the issue set that motivates many Americans? What about the fact that people felt like they had nothing in common, no connective tissue with Hillary Clinton?”

With Republicans now in charge of the House, Senate and the White House, Democrats are searching for a new leader for their party. Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, former Vermont Gov. Howard

Dean former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, Labor Secretary Tom Perez and Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander are reportedly interested in leading the Democratic National Committee.

Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, said the future Democratic Party needs to “make the voters first, not the donors first.”

He said the FBI email investigation certainly “did not help” Clinton, but it’s up to Dems to do better reaching working people.

“Donald Trump picked on people’s fears or anxieties and he gave them somebody to blame, and some folks just really turned out for him for that,” Ellison told ABC’s “This Week.” “At the same time, our message of strengthening the middle class, working people, we just didn’t get penetrate well enough and we didn’t have the kind of turn out that we really needed or expected.”