Allegations that supporters of Bernie Sanders have been harassing people on social media for preferring Hillary Clinton have become a nettlesome issue for the Sanders campaign. Campaigning for his wife in Milford on Sunday, he blasted Sanders’ supporters for lodging “sexist” attacks and accused the senator of shifting positions on health care. Clinton’s campaign has criticized Sanders for not doing more to condemn individuals who hassle Clinton supporters online. I don’t think so.
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Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN)Hillary and Bill Clinton didn’t back off their critiques of Bernie Sanders during a rally in Manchester on Monday, despite receiving some negative press for them the day earlier.
Hillary Clinton accuses Bernie Sanders of engaging in the most negative campaign in the history of Democratic presidential nomination contests, breaking his decades-long pledge to run only positive campaigns. Clinton supporters have been subjected to “vicious trolling” and “attacks that are literally too profane often, not to mention sexist, to repeat”, Bill Clinton said.
In an attempt to explain Clinton’s struggles with female voters in New Hampshire, Albright said during an NBC interview Saturday that women could be judgmental toward one another and that they occasionally forgot how hard someone like Clinton had to work to get where she is. “That is not what this campaign is about”.
Meanwhile, Mr Clinton extended his assault on Mr Sanders, calling him hypocritical fro making attacks on Wall Street and “the billionaire class”.
New Hampshire holds important symbolism to the Clintons.
He set out his wife’s record of achievements, contrasting them with the rhetoric of the Sanders campaign.
To help appeal to younger women, Clinton has campaigned with Lena Dunham, creator of the HBO show “Girls”, and pop star Katy Perry, but she has failed to connect.
The strength of Sanders’ candidacy is built, in part, on strong support from Millennial voters. “Now if I said that, ‘They’re for Bernie because that’s where the boys are, ‘ you’d swat me”.
Sen. Sanders condemned the behavior, telling the online cabal on Sunday during a TV appearance, “I have heard about it”, he said.
Christine wrote about Democratic National Committee chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s complete lack of self-awareness over her tweet mocking the GOP for hiding their New Hampshire debate on a weekend, or something. “The question we have got to ask ourselves is do we have the courage to take on a billionaire class and say loudly and clearly, ‘That our government belongs to all of us.’ … I don’t think so”, he argued, continuing: “The New Hampshire I knew would not have voted for me if I had done that”. “It’s disgusting. Look we don’t want that crap”.
The last time that particular polling outlet had surveyed voters nationwide, Clinton was receiving 61 percent of the vote to Sanders’ 30 percent.
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Really? Bill Clinton complaining about personal attacks?
