Book: Clinton blamed Clyburn for Hillary's SC primary loss

Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) revealed in a new memoir that he received a tongue lashing from former President Clinton after the 2008 South Carolina primary, according to a report.

Clinton blamed the South Carolina representative for his wife's primary loss in the state to President Obama, then an Illinois senator. Clinton, during a 2 a.m. phone call, also said: "If you bastards want a fight, you damn well will get one."

U.S. News and World Report highlighted the exchange that is part of Clyburn's memoir slated for publication in the summer titled: Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black.

Clyburn had remained publicly neutral throughout the Democratic primary, though he voted for Obama in his state's primary.

“I had kept that promise. I asked [Clinton] to tell me why he felt otherwise," Clyburn writes. "He exploded, used the word ‘bastard’ again, and accused me of causing her defeat and injecting race into the contest."

He added: “It was clear that the former president was holding me personally responsible for his wife’s poor showing among South Carolina black voters, and it was also clear that our heated conversation had not changed his mind.”

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