Hillary Clinton reads her discarded victory speech she would have given if she had beaten Trump in 2016

Hillary Clinton — for the first time — has shared the shelved victory speech she would have given on election night in 2016 had she not lost the presidency to Donald Trump. 

The Democratic former first lady and secretary of state read the speech aloud in a video for her new MasterClass lesson called “The Power of Resilience.”

“So this was supposed to be the victory speech that I would have delivered on election night in New York on November the 8th of 2016,” Clinton said in the video, according to a clip of her reading an excerpt of the speech that was published by NBC’s “Today” show. 

“I’ve never shared this with anybody. I’ve never read it out loud,” Clinton says in the clip. 

—Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) December 8, 2021

Clinton got emotional at times as she read the never-used victory speech.

“My fellow Americans, today you’ve sent a message to the whole world — our values endure, our democracy stands strong, and our motto remains ‘E pluribus unum.’ Out of many, one,” Clinton’s presidential speech would have read. 

“We will not be defined only by our differences. We will not be an us versus them country,” she says in the video. “The American dream is big enough for everyone.”

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