Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) said on Saturday that "all of us need to take personal responsibility" for President Trump's election in November, after Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonFox News poll: Biden ahead of Trump in Nevada, Pennsylvania and Ohio Trump, Biden court Black business owners in final election sprint The power of incumbency: How Trump is using the Oval Office to win reelection MORE sought to place blame on the Democratic National Committee for doing little to support her presidential campaign.

"I think all of us need to take personal responsibility in doing all we can to fix what we've broke now in our country," O'Malley, an early contender for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, said on MSNBC.

Clinton criticized the DNC's data operation during a Q&A session at Recode's Code Convention on Wednesday, saying "its data was mediocre to poor" and that the party was "on the verge of insolvency" when she became its nominee last year.

ADVERTISEMENT

The former secretary of state, however, faced backlash for her comments from Republicans, who accused her of trying to absolve herself of any responsibility for her electoral loss.

Clinton was widely projected by pollsters to win the November election, but eventually lost several key swing states and, consequently, the contest to Trump.

Since the loss, she has said that she takes responsibility for her campaign's decisions, but has ultimately pointed to external factors, such as leaked DNC and campaign emails, as the factors that led to her defeat.