Article snippet: After largely staying out of the spotlight for almost a year, Hillary Clinton is back to talk about the 2016 presidential election and how she dealt with a loss that she said left her “gobsmacked.” “It still is very painful,” she said. “It hurts a lot.” In her first televised interview since November, Clinton, a former first lady and a former secretary of state, described on CBS’s “Sunday Morning” the moment she found out she would not be moving back into the White House as the first female president of the United States. “I just felt this enormous letdown, just kind of loss of feeling and direction and sadness,” she said. “Off I went, into a frenzy of closet cleaning and long walks in the woods, playing with my dogs and, as I write [in her upcoming memoir], yoga, alternate nostril breathing, which I highly recommend, trying to calm myself down. And, you know, my share of chardonnay. It was a very hard transition. I really struggled. I couldn’t feel, I couldn’t think. I was just gobsmacked, wiped out.” But Clinton, the Democratic nominee, acknowledges that she “maybe missed a few chances” to strike back at her main opponent, Donald Trump, and at the message his campaign was sending to voters. She said he was able to tap into the frustrations of “millions of white people.” “He was quite successful in referencing a nostalgia that would give hope, comfort, settle grievances for millions of people who were upset about gains that were made by other... Link to the full article to read more