Hillary Clinton Calls Electoral College 'An Abomination' in Netflix Docuseries

Nearly a decade after her 2016 defeat, Clinton uses a new Netflix documentary series to relitigate the race that defined — and ended — her path to the White House.

Hillary Clinton appears in a new Netflix docuseries titled 'The American Experiment,' due to stream in 2026.
Clinton describes the Electoral College as 'an abomination' in footage reported by Variety.
The series revisits her 2016 loss to Donald Trump, which she lost in the Electoral College despite winning the popular vote by nearly three million ballots.
The docuseries is positioned as prestige political programming, arriving as Netflix continues to expand its factual and documentary slate.
Clinton has previously criticized the Electoral College in memoir and interview formats, but the Netflix platform extends the audience considerably.

It has been the better part of a decade since election night 2016, and the results are apparently still not sitting well. Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State and two-time presidential candidate, is revisiting her loss to Donald Trump in a new Netflix docuseries called The American Experiment — and she is not pulling punches about the system she blames for the outcome.

In footage flagged by Variety ahead of the series, Clinton calls the Electoral College “an abomination.” The remarks land in the context of a documentary format that appears designed to give her extended room to make the case she has been making in interviews and on the book tour circuit since 2017 — only now with a Netflix budget and a global streaming audience behind it.

The 2016 race remains one of the most relitigated elections in modern American political memory. Clinton won the national popular vote by approximately 2.9 million ballots but lost the Electoral College count to Trump, 306 to 232. The gap between those two numbers has fueled years of debate about the college's role in contemporary democracy — debate that, based on the clip, Clinton is happy to keep going.

Netflix has not confirmed a premiere date beyond a 2026 window, per Variety's reporting. The docuseries joins a growing slate of politically adjacent prestige documentary content on the platform, following titles that have profiled figures from both parties and across the ideological spectrum. Whether The American Experiment lands as a cultural moment or a streaming footnote may depend on how much appetite there is, in 2026, for 2016.