Two days before voters in New Hampshire will cast ballots, Clinton traveled to Flint, Michigan, on Sunday to address the city’s water crisis, vowing to make a “personal commitment” to help the city’s residents deal with contaminated water.
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Clinton, recognizing the strength of Sanders’s candidacy in New Hampshire, offered an olive branch to young voters who have migrated to his campaign. Her advisers have accused Sanders of running a far more negative campaign than she is.
President Clinton became particularly incensed over the online attacks against supporters of his wife by people claiming to support Sanders.
“The fact is I do have a somewhat narrower path that I try to walk and I do think sometimes it comes across as a little more restrained, a little more careful, and I am sure that is true”, Clinton said during a town hall in Henniker, New Hampshire.
“We are going to fight for every vote in every state”, she said, foreshadowing a long fight for the nomination.
This is a pretty common campaign tactic – to say he’s saying one thing but doing another, this guy is not who he said he was.
For both Clintons, New Hampshire is a source of frustration.
Bill Clinton tore into the Sanders campaign Sunday at an event in New Hampshire, mocking Sanders’s anti-establishment, pro-revolution platform. But it is clear that earning the support of young women in particular is on her mind. Clinton referred to a CNN report that in 2006, Sanders received $37,300 from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, along with $60,000 worth of advertising. “I just want you to think”.
“I haven’t just talked, I haven’t just given speeches, I have introduced legislation”.
Since getting in trouble for making aggressive remarks about then-opponent Barack Obama in 2008, Clinton has toned down his rhetoric when stumping for Hillary.
But Sanders’ supporters yesterday said they aren’t concerned with Hillary’s comeback in his New England home turf. They say Clinton will find more success in the SC primary on Feb 20 and the Nevada caucuses a week later, where polls show her with a wide lead.
Clinton and her campaign focused on reviving the lackluster support among women this weekend, with the candidate appearing alongside prominent female politicians, including lawmakers from the “sisterhood of the traveling pantsuits” and former secretary of state Madeleine Albright.
She said: “When you’re young, you’re thinking “Where are the boys?” And I would point you to something that Gloria Steinem said, which she also – the first thing that she said was talking about women in power, and how men tend to get more power as they get older and women don’t always.
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“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. “It hasn’t changed (Sanders’) view”, she said.
