The former president then pivoted to the larger theme of Sanders’s campaign, saying that it depicted anyone who opposed the Vermont senator as a corrupt tool of the establishment, and thus unworthy.
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“But they’re not, they’re attacking her. Because they know that she’s got a stronger plan and they know that when she says she’s going to do something, she’s going to do it”, Bill Clinton told the crowd.
We welcome a vigorous debate on the issues, and we admire what Bernie Sanders brings to the 2016 campaign, but we reject innuendo and insinuations targeting Hillary Clinton’s integrity. “In private, they sent an email out complaining, blaming the Democratic party for leaving the keys in the vehicle…’All I did was drive it out'”. “That is not what this campaign is about”.
Bernie Sanders has also addressed the Flint crisis on the campaign trail, and has called for the resignation of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder – something Clinton has not yet done.
“They are supporting me because they know me”, Clinton said of the members of the Vermont congressional delegation. Majority are not old enough to have voted for or remember the Clinton White House. Hillary Clinton’s 2008 victory in New Hampshire likewise helped revive, for a time, her unsuccessful campaign against Barack Obama.
“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. They support Hillary Clinton.
At a town hall for New England College students in Henniker on Saturday, a young woman asked Clinton why some people think she is too “drilled and rehearsed”.
Bill Clinton isn’t the only surrogate who’s stepped up his rhetoric in the closing days. “I wish it were for a different reason” said Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as she spoke in Flint Sunday afternoon. There isn’t much recent Nevada polling, but Clinton led Sanders by almost 20 points as of late December, according to the RealClearPolitics average.
Journalists who have written about the Bernie Bros on social media have themselves become targets for harassment, prompting more allegations against the group.
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If the polls and prediction markets hold up, Clinton could blunt the momentum that Sanders would gain from a win in New Hampshire on Tuesday. He had kind words for Clinton’s efforts at the Children’s Defense Fund, but questioned the language she used championing the “tough on crime” reforms of the early 1990s.
