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"You can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen from you," she said to cheers on the Los Angeles stop of her "Evening with the Clintons" tour with her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

“I was the candidate that they basically stole an election from,” Clinton said Monday on the New York Times podcast “Sway.” “I was the candidate who won nearly three million more votes. So no matter how they cut it, it wasn’t the kind of win that people said, ‘OK, it wasn’t my candidate, but OK.’ This election is still front and center in people’s psyches. And people fight about it every day online, because there is a deep sense of unfairness and just dismissiveness toward his victory, and he knows it,” Clinton said.

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She says the right thing as a functionary, but her surrogates are saying otherwise in the media as it's unfolding, so everyone knows it's disingenuous, and that she'll say later she was cheated. She abides by conventional formality, but no one takes that formality seriously. I'm not arguing about equivalencies, Trump is challenging the results in court and that is materially different, but speaking to the general cynicism with which people take the bromides about election integrity. Trump is desperately trying to stay in power and willing to undermine integrity in 2020, Hillary relented and undermined integrity later in 2016.