08-13-2008, 07:13 AM
Edwards sex lie cost Hillary the nomination: Former aide
13 Aug 2008, 0125 hrs IST,AFP
WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton would be the Democrats' White House nominee today if former presidential hopeful John Edwards had come clean earlier about an extra-marital affair, a top aide to Clinton believes.
"I believe we would have won Iowa, and Clinton today would therefore have been the nominee," Howard Wolfson, who was the combative communications director for Clinton's doomed campaign, said.
In an interview, Wolfson also said that Clinton's campaign knew about the affair but kept quiet. "Any of the campaigns that would have tried to push that would have been burned by it," he said.
Wolfson insisted that Edwards voters in Iowa, whose caucuses kicked off the 2008 race in early January, would have been behind Clinton rather than Obama. "Our voters and Edwards' voters were the same people," he said.
13 Aug 2008, 0125 hrs IST,AFP
WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton would be the Democrats' White House nominee today if former presidential hopeful John Edwards had come clean earlier about an extra-marital affair, a top aide to Clinton believes.
"I believe we would have won Iowa, and Clinton today would therefore have been the nominee," Howard Wolfson, who was the combative communications director for Clinton's doomed campaign, said.
In an interview, Wolfson also said that Clinton's campaign knew about the affair but kept quiet. "Any of the campaigns that would have tried to push that would have been burned by it," he said.
Wolfson insisted that Edwards voters in Iowa, whose caucuses kicked off the 2008 race in early January, would have been behind Clinton rather than Obama. "Our voters and Edwards' voters were the same people," he said.