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Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama urged their party to reflect on what went wrong as Democrats search to find a new leader and rebuild after her stunning defeat to Donald Trump.

On a conference call with congressional lawmakers, Clinton offered a raw evaluation of how the loss has impacted her but encouraged Democrats to fight for the party’s values harder than ever in the Trump era.

“No one is sorrier than me,” she said, according to a Democrat on the call. “Heartbreaks don’t heal overnight, and this one won’t.”

Clinton said the party must “analyze” and warned lawmakers against becoming “distracted or divided” in the many fights ahead.

Meanwhile, Obama addressed supporters on a conference call late on Monday, congratulating Clinton on a “history-making race” while acknowledging how painful it is to lose.

“Expected losses are hard enough, unexpected ones are just worse,” Obama said. “I was telling my team, you’re allowed to mope for a week and a half, maybe two if you really need it. But after that, we’ve got to brush ourselves off and get back to work. We’ve got to come together and focus on a way ahead.”

Like Clinton, Obama encouraged the party to evaluate what went wrong and to rework its strategy at a grassroots level.

“We have better ideas,” Obama said. “But they have to be heard for us to actually translate those ideas into votes and ultimately into action.”

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