Say what you will about Hillary Clinton, but she significantly outperformed house democrats in the 2016 elections.
House republicans got almost 1.4 million more votes than house democrats, while Clinton got almost 3 million more votes than Trump. That's a swing of more than 4.3 million votes.
Maybe democrats shouldn't be so fast to throw her under the bus. 2016 was a really bad showing by democrats in general and she still handidly beat Trump in the popular vote.
That's a neat stat. Another with eerily similar margins is that Clinton outperformed Trump by 4.3 million votes in California, while underperforming Trump by 1.4 million votes everywhere else. I wonder if there is a correlation?
