Two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has added the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race to the list of elections she believes were stolen from Democrats, which is quite the turnaround for the woman who said in 2016 that it is “ a direct threat to our democracy” to even question the outcome of a U.S. election.

Clinton was honored Tuesday at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs in Austin, Texas, with the inaugural “In the Arena” award, which is given to a person who either “spends himself in a worthy cause” or “if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.” After receiving her award in the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium, Clinton sat for an interview with LBJ School dean Angela Evans. During their talk, the discussion turned to LBJ School alumna and Georgia's Democratic House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams, whose supporters allege, without evidence, that she was robbed last week in the November midterm elections by Republican Georgia Gov.-elect Brian Kemp.

Clinton groused, “If she had a fair election, [Abrams] already would have won.”

Abrams’ allies claim, without evidence, that Kemp is responsible for Democratic county governments choosing to consolidate their polling places (in many cases the former Georgia secretary of state is actually on the record opposing their consolidation), creating longer lines and other likely unforeseen delays for voters. The failed gubernatorial candidate’s supporters also claim, without evidence, that Kemp is personally responsible for election day mishaps, including a shortage of extension cords for voting machines at a polling station in Gwinnett County. (The extension cords were eventually found. Perhaps Kemp snuck into the building and put them back.)

This bogus, ham-fisted attempt to delegitimize the outcome of the Georgia gubernatorial race, permanently staining and undermining Kemp’s term in office, has gained enough traction that even the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee is on board.

It’s a hell of a change of heart for Clinton, who went hard after Trump in 2016 after he said he’d have to think about whether he’d accept the election results if she won.

“I will look at it at the time,” the then-GOP nominee said during an Oct. 19 presidential debate. “I will keep you in suspense.”

“That’s horrifying,” Clinton replied. “Let’s be clear about what he is saying and what that means. He is denigrating — he is talking down our democracy. And I am appalled that someone who is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that position.”

“It’s funny, but it’s also really troubling,” she added. “That is not the way our democracy works.”

Donald Trump refused to say that he’d respect the results of this election.



That’s a direct threat to our democracy. — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 24, 2016

Clinton didn’t leave it at just that. Attacking Trump's supposed “threat” to our democracy became a key talking point for the Democratic nominee and her team.

“To say you won't respect the results of the election, that is a direct threat to our democracy,” she said at a rally at the University of North Carolina. "We've been around 240 years. We've had free and fair elections and we've accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them and that is what must be expected of anyone standing on a debate stage during a general election.”

What a difference two years make. After all, it was Clinton who also said in 2016 that, “The peaceful transfer of power is one of the things that makes America America.”

“Look, some people are just sore losers,” she added. Tell me about it.