Trump aide: Clinton’s team in ‘denial’ on loss

The day after a heated disagreement between the two sides, a top aide to President-elect Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton’s campaign staffers are deluding themselves about their loss on Election Day.

“I do think some people are stuck in the permanent campaign and not really past the anger, grief and denial stages and into the acceptance stages,” Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s former campaign manager, said on Fox News’s “Fox and Friends” Friday. “But that’s OK. We won.”

{mosads}Conway added that Trump is already achieving results for voters, citing his deal with Carrier Thursday to keep factory jobs headed to Mexico in the U.S.

“Yesterday in Indianapolis, people got a taste of what it’s going to be like in a Trump-Pence administration,” she said. “We are open for business.”

Conway and Clinton’s former communications director clashed heatedly over their respective campaigns Thursday during a traditional post-election meeting sponsored by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

“If providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician, I am proud to have lost,” Jennifer Palmieri said. “I would rather lose than win the way you guys did.”

“Do you think you could have just had a decent message for white, working-class voters?” Conway retorted to the Democratic presidential nominee’s team.

“How about, it’s Hillary Clinton, she doesn’t connect with people? How about, they have nothing in common with her? How about, she doesn’t have an economic message?”