“One says it’s OK to take millions from big banks and then tell them what to do”, Sanders says in the ad, which does not name his rival.
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But Clinton’s campaign said Sanders, who has said he has never run a negative ad during his political career, had broken his commitment not to engage in negative campaigning.
The Sanders campaign, meanwhile, rolled out the endorsement of Paul Kirk, a Kennedy family confidant, as they have been gaining steam in Iowa and pulling away from Clinton in New Hampshire.
On health care, an issue that has dominated the Democratic primary in recent days, Clinton hoped to convince Democrats that Sanders’ single-payer health care plan is not feasible and warned it would destroy the status quo.
Clinton has begun attacking Sanders daily as polls show the race for the Democratic nomination tightening. “And I believe, if people are distorting my record, as is the case right now, we are going to deal with it and I have dealt with it and we will continue to deal with it”.
Sanders, meanwhile, has wrestled with an earlier campaign pledge not to run negative ads against Clinton, raising the question of what counts as an attack ad.
After overtaking Hillary Clinton in some Iowa and New Hampshire polls, Sen.
Sanders has vowed to break up large Wall Street banks that were bailed out during the financial downturn in late 2008 and 2009 and suggested that Clinton would be more lenient in how she would address the financial industry.
Hillary Clinton, who boasted that she represented Wall Street while serving in the US Senate, appears in this photo during a visit to the stock market.
Meantime, the tone of the Democratic race has grown more combative, with Clinton’s campaign turning up the heat as well, running an ad that indirectly call out Sanders on gun control.
Sanders had said he planned to roll out a detailed proposal before the Iowa caucuses, but his campaign has recently hedged on fulfilling that pledge. “It’s about people in the Democratic establishment who believe you can take Wall Street’s money and then somehow turn around and rein in the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior”.
Ever since that speech – which saw some Sanders’ aides get in on the Clinton bashing on social media – the tone of the Sanders campaign has been decidedly more negative than the operation he and his aides sketched early in 2015.
Kirk later joined Sanders at a boisterous campaign rally in a packed auditorium on the campus of Dartmouth College. Clinton, in particular, has pressed Sanders to explain precisely how he would pay for his Medicare-for-all plan.
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So you have to figure that, when 2016 rolled around and everyone was saying, “No, this horse is a sure thing”, she was a bit wary. “Everybody knows that there are two positions”.
