There was one personal silver lining on Election Day for Gov. John Hickenlooper, a good friend of Hillary Clinton.

He doesn’t have to think about uprooting his son from his school or his new wife “from a job she loves.” That is, if a Clinton Cabinet position had his name on it.

“I won’t say there wasn’t a level of relief,” the governor said to a gaggle of reporters in his office Thursday afternoon, his first such gathering since Election Day.

“I thought, ‘Gosh, could I really be better than anyone else to make it worth all the sacrifices for the people I love,'” he said.

The governor campaigned with Clinton, including at the Democratic National Convention. He held a fundraiser she attended in his private home in Park Hill. He helped deliver the state for her on Tuesday.

Hickenlooper said he sympathized with her supporters who are saddened, even upset, by the loss.

“This was a bitter election, which reflects how deeply and intensely people’s emotions were engaged,” Hickenlooper said. “They really care about these issues. They care about the candidates.”

He said the Hillary Clinton portrayed in the media “is not the person I’ve spent a lot of time with.”

“I’m not blaming anyone,” he said. “Some people don’t translate well on camera, some people such as myself.”

“I do trust her,” he said. “She doesn’t come across on video. She’s not telegenic, and I think that people couldn’t trust her. I think the media didn’t trust her, because she doesn’t trust the media.”

Some of her supporters think if there was any rigged elections, it was rigged against Clinton, the governor said.

“A lot of things happened in that election,” Hickenlooper said. “WikiLeaks with Russian connections, the FBI issues a letter 14 days out with little information and it looks pretty serious, then suddenly Secretary Clinton’s momentum stops, and then 11 days later suddenly we find out there wasn’t anything there.”

He said Clinton didn’t make a big deal of it. Not claiming the system was rigged inspires some of her defenders.

“Her taking the high road leaves some of her supporters, people who believed in her, feel something was taken from them,” he said.