Former Clinton staffers share happy photos to push back against infighting claims

Gabby Kaufman
·Reporter

As a new book, “Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign,” gains attention for its depiction of the Hillary Clinton campaign as dysfunctional, former staffers are pushing back against claims of friction and infighting.

The book’s authors, Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, said they drew that depiction after interviews with over 100 sources inside and outside the campaign.

“Hillary’s campaign was so spirit-crushing,” they wrote in the book’s foreword, “that her aides eventually shorthanded the feeling of impending doom with a simple mantra: We’re not allowed to have nice things.”

On Wednesday, Christina Reynolds, the campaign’s deputy communications director, published a Medium post titled “‘Shattered’ or Contorted? What a New Book Gets Wrong About the Clinton Campaign,” attempting to debunk the narrative of discord.

“I wanted to speak out because after spending most of the campaign watching some people question the enthusiasm and our supporters, it’s hard to read a depiction of the campaign that paints a dedicated, cohesive team as mercenaries with questionable motives who lacked a loyalty to a candidate described as ‘imperial’ and removed from the campaign,” Reynolds wrote.

Inspired by Reynolds’ essay, more staffers and people otherwise affiliated with the campaign followed suit on Twitter, sharing lighthearted behind-the-scenes photos from the trail, often punctuated with sarcastic comments.

The photos included scenes of campaign stops, debate prep and office outings.

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