Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton acknowledged she made a mistake Wednesday when she suggested in a newspaper interview that her opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, was having trouble winning over "hardworking ... white Americans."
Told that a top black supporter, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., had called the remark "the dumbest thing you could have possibly said," Clinton said "Well, he's probably right."
On ABC News, Clinton said some voters may be discriminating against Obama because he is black but that there are probably an equal number voting against her because she's a woman.
"There are people ... who have reluctance about a woman, have reluctance about an African American. But thankfully, those are a relatively small minority," she said. "And I'm not sure that those people would ever vote for one of us."
The former first lady spoke to the major news networks in Washington as her campaign looked to parlay her lopsided victory in West Virginia into a last-ditch effort to persuade superdelegates to give her flagging candidacy another look.
Badly trailing Obama in fundraising and cash on hand, Clinton was hosting some 50 of her top national fundraisers at her home Wednesday to seek their help in raising money to compete in the final five contests in Kentucky, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Montana and South Dakota.
She faces a more than 20 million U.S. dollar debt. Clinton owed 10 million dollars at the end of March, has made loans to her campaign totaling 11.4 million dollars thus far and will more than likely end the primary season significantly in the red.
Source:Xinhua
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