People tend to hold women’s ambition against them, whether it’s for a political office or a raise at work.
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“Last night, after Bernie Sanders won Wisconsin, his campaign manager went on CNN to accuse our team of destroying the Democratic Party to “satisfy the Secretary’s ambition to become President of the US”.
According to a McClatchy-Marist poll released yesterday, Sanders has a two-point lead over Clinton, 49 to 47 per cent.
True, Clinton’s critique on Sanders seems to be piggy-backing on some poor journalism by the New York Daily News, where an interview that was taken to show that Sanders did not know what he was talking about showed instead that the interviewers were themselves confused. Candidate Bernie Sanders told journalists in Philadelphia Thursday that he raised questions about Clinton’s qualifications to be president because “that was what was thrown at me”.
“I don’t believe that she is qualified if she is, through her super PAC, taking tens of millions of dollars in special-interest funds”, he said, referring to a political action committee.
The Sanders campaign, meanwhile, has said her presidential bid has the potential to split the party.
“I don’t think you are qualified if you have voted for the disastrous war in Iraq”, he continued, referring to Clinton’s 2002 vote as a us senator from NY.
It’s the latest salvo in a war of words that has gotten increasingly heated as underdog Sanders has gained ground on front-runner Clinton, capped by the Vermont senator’s victory in Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary. In fact, she dodged the question.
JS: What do you think?
CLINTON: Well, let me put it this way, Joe. And I will leave it to voters to decide who of us can do the job that the country needs, who can do all aspects of the job. I heard Chuck Todd say Wednesday morning that Sanders needs to win 67 percent of the remaining pledged delegates to overtake her lead. Clinton’s answer to Chuck Todd about her most recent ad sent a message to Republicans that it doesn’t matter if they nominate Trump or Cruz, they are already screwed for the fall. Women use pronouns of all kinds more often, which suggests they are more focused on people and relationships. That represents a net pickup of just 14 delegates for Sanders, doing little to change the current complexion of the race.
On Tuesday, Sanders netted about a dozen delegates, winning 47 to Clinton’s 36.
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“You can’t insult the people of NY who fought their way after the tragedy of 9/11 back to strength and expect people to ignore it”, he said. “Do I have them in front of me, now, legal statutes?” The headline: “Bernie’s Sandy Hook shame”. “This is a new low”, Clinton Campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said. A robust 18 percent of voters were under 30; Sanders won them 81/17. “Because at the end of the day, we need a Democratic president to succeed President Obama”. The presidential race is helping Senate Majority Mitch McConnell here – at least for now. “Bernie Sanders can pull together and unify the Democrats, and he has brought thousands of new voters to the party”. Bill Clinton also stumps for his wife in Pennsylvania…
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Murphy, who took aim at Sanders a day earlier over his comments, doubled down on his criticism of his colleague from Vermont, calling his comments in The News interview “disturbing”. Surprisingly, the loser in Wisconsin, Governor John Kasich, is the only one to beat Clinton (by anywhere between six and 16 points) if he is the GOP nominee in November.
