Michelle Obama: women who didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton ‘voted against their own voice’

“Any woman who voted against Hillary Clinton voted against their own voice,” the former First Lady said during a question-and-answer session on Wednesday (EST), according to Boston.com.

“What does it mean for us, as women, that we look at those two candidates … and many of us said, ‘That guy? He’s better for me. His voice is more true to me.’ Well, to me that just says, you don’t like your voice. You like the thing you’re told to like,” she added, referring to President Donald Trump.

Mrs Obama opened up about last year’s bitter election during a discussion with feminist author Roxane Gay at Inbound, a marketing and sales conference, in Boston.

She campaigned for Mrs Clinton, famously saying of the Democratic candidate’s critics, “When they go low, we go high.”

Despite her opposition to President Trump’s candidacy, Mrs Obama is hoping for the best from his administration.

“We want the sitting president to be successful, because we live in this country,” she said. “He is our commander-in-chief. He was voted in. We may not like it, but it happened.”

However she remains critical of Republicans’ multiple failed efforts to repeal her husband Barack Obama’s health care law.

“The Affordable Care Act isn’t Barack’s legacy,” she said. “It’s the country’s legacy.”

Mrs Obama admitted that while she doesn’t miss the White House, she does miss the “people and the work.”

“It was like being shot out of a cannon … with a blindfold and the spotlight on you,” …