On her MSNBC show on Friday, anchor Andrea Mitchell decried the fact that the usual liberal identity politics did not work with voters in November’s election. Talking to Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd, she fretted over the revelation that campaign focus groups “showed that people related to Hillary Clinton as a man.”

While discussing Thursday’s post-election forum at Harvard University, Mitchell noted longtime Clinton operative Mandy Grunwald telling the conference “that all of her focus groups showed that people related to Hillary Clinton as a man, as though she were the commander-in-chief. She said, ‘I’ve elected six women senators. I’ve never had a candidate. People view her as a man.’ They did not see the humanity in her.”

Todd observed: “That's interesting. I always said that her – that the problem for her is she was being – it’s her last name was her problem, not her gender. It was the last name that said establishment. It’s the last name that said NAFTA...”

Earlier in the exchange, Mitchell complained about how “nasty” Trump campaign staffers were at the event:

Well, in fact, on the Clinton side, there was some acknowledgment of fault....They were very protective of her. And the reason was they were hurting because – not only because she lost and she's in pain, they’re in pain – but because it was so nasty coming from the other side, “People don't like her.” You know, she’s – that was the – that’s what they were saying. You know, “Your candidate is not relatable.”

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Todd blamed all sides for the tone of the discussion, including the press:

...what we saw yesterday – and I'm not going to single out individuals, nobody has any humility yet. What has happened to grace and humility? Nobody has shown any of it. Not the campaigns, either side of it. But I have to say that the Trump campaign has come across as sore winners. Clinton folks came across as sore losers, they came across as sore winners. But even those that represented – that had to represent the media didn't show enough humility. My gosh, can somebody show some humility here?

Mitchell chimed in: “We all got it wrong, folks.” Todd replied: “Yeah, exactly, it is okay to admit some mistakes. It is okay to do that. And it seems like right now at that conference everybody was looking to blame someone else. Nobody would look in the mirror.”

Here is a transcript of the December 2 exchange: