Former Boston Globe editor Ben Bradlee Jr. said in an interview that aired Tuesday on "Rising" that 2016 Democratic presidential candidate 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 made white, working-class voters feel "ashamed" during the campaign.

"I think [President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE's] appeal was more cultural than economic. People in that county [Luzerne County, Pa.] and many parts of the country felt disenfranchised, felt forgotten, ignored and dominated by a liberal culture that mocked their faith, mocked their patriotism," Bradlee, the son of late Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee, told Hill.TV's Krystal Ball earlier this month.

Clinton notably lost regular Rust Belt Democratic strongholds in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

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"They felt heard by Trump whereas they felt that the Democratic Party had largely left them. They say people fall in love with their therapist because they feel listened to, and I think they felt listened to by Trump," he continued.

"Hillary made them feel ashamed by calling them deplorables and things like that, which didn't go over too well," he said.

Bradlee is promoting his book, "The Forgotten: How the People of One Pennsylvania County Elected Donald Trump and Changed America," which details how Trump was able to flip Luzerne County from blue to red in 2016.

Clinton received backlash during the campaign after she said that half of Trump's supporters could be put into a "basket of deplorables."

The Trump campaign seized on the comment, saying it demonstrated Clinton was largely out of touch with voters.

Trump was able to appeal to the white working class in the traditionally Democratic states, propelling him to electoral victory. According to media exit poll data, he increased the Republican vote percentage in rural and small-town areas by 11 points compared to the party's 2012 presidential nominee, Mitt Romney Willard (Mitt) Mitt RomneyTrump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance GOP lawmakers distance themselves from Trump comments on transfer of power McConnell pushes back on Trump: 'There will be an orderly transition' MORE.

— Julia Manchester