WASHINGTON (AP) Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign on Thursday accused Democratic rival Bernie Sanders of breaking a self-imposed pledge against negative advertising, offering up the latest sign that her campaign is concerned about the Vermont senator’s rise in Iowa.
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Sanders, in the 30-second-long television ad which will air in Iowa and New Hampshire, indirectly contrasts his overhaul plan to Clinton’s, saying “there are two Democratic visions for regulating Wall Street”. Sanders has often boasted that he “has never run a negative ad, and his campaign adviser Tad Devine told the New York Observer past year that “the day he would have to get into a negative exchange with Hillary Clinton is the day the campaign is over”. In 2008, she decisively lost black voters to Obama, but in this cycle it is Sanders who is weak with non-whites, and who will therefore likely suffer as the campaign moves out of heavily-white Iowa and New Hampshire. “We’re neck and neck in New Hampshire, and I need my best supporters like you with me”, the email said. The Des Moines Register poll released Thursday has these numbers event tighter: Clinton (86- 12 percent, favorable-unfavorable among) and Sanders (89-6 percent, favorable-unfavorable).
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announced the endorsement of a former USA senator from MA and Democratic National Committee Chairman. Clinton, her campaign aides and her daughter, Chelsea, have unleashed a string of attacks on Sanders’ policy proposals, describing his single-payer health-care plan as unrealistic and a threat to existing programs, such as Medicare. Just a few months ago, Clinton was often leading Sanders by double digits.
Sanders, however, denies the ad — which does not mention Clinton by name — is about her. “Clinton believes, given the problems of income inequality, the last thing that we should be doing is raising taxes on the middle class”, Sullivan said.
Sanders said that his spot was certainly no more negative than one Clinton debuted earlier in the week that he said suggested he was not on the same side of the gun-control issue as President Obama.
Clinton accuses Sanders of waiting to dismantle Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.
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Although they objected to the lack of detail, the Clinton campaign staffers evidently had enough details to launch a harsh critique of Sanders’ concept of universal health care.
