Bernie Sanders’ campaign took on Hillary Clinton’s newest line of attack just one day before the New Hampshire primary – calling the claim that the senator received campaign donations from Wall Street several years ago “absurd” and “false”.
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Today’s poll lends credibility to the storyline that Democrats are giving a serious look at Sanders who says he supports large-scale government programs like universal healthcare and free state school college educations.
Nationally, Clinton is still beating the Vermont senator among women, with 48% to Sanders’ 38% according to a February 5 poll from Quinnipiac University.
“People who have gone online to defend Hillary and explain – just explain – why they supported her have been subject to vicious trolling and attacks that are literally too profane – not to mention sexist – to repeat”, President Clinton said.
Coming off a razor-thin victory in Iowa, the first presidential vote last week, Mrs Clinton has aggressively challenged Mr Sanders to try to narrow his average 13-point lead in the New England state. Clinton said that Sanders manipulated endorsements of Hillary Clinton to his advantage and rejected critics as anti-establishment. In the image Ratajkowski posed in the snowbanks of New Hampshire wearing a unseasonably small “Bernie” Sanders sweater.
The former president also has higher favorability ratings than his wife, and Sanders’ sky-high ratings have been an obstacle for the Clinton campaign in landing attacks on Sanders.
“I mean, when you’re making a revolution, you can’t be too careful about the facts”.
She also zeroed in on recent news reports that Sanders has raised money from Wall Street for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
“There is, I think, a much greater burden on women running for political office, I wish it weren’t the case”, Clinton continued. The candidate herself played good cop, thanking the young people supporting her opponent and for “understanding the importance of getting involved”.
The former secretary of state said Monday that she understands the anger motivating Sanders’ young supporters, but blamed their feelings on President George W. Bush’s administration, not Barack Obama’s. “We can tell our story of how we climbed the ladder, and a lot of you younger women think it’s done”, Albright said.
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“I want my first female president to be more than a symbol”, Ratajkowski said.
