The Sanders press release linked to a Washington Post story titled, “Clinton questions whether Sanders is qualified to be president”.
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Sanders has responded by highlighting his rating of D- from the National Rifle Association and his support of gun safety measures. “She has been saying lately that she thinks that I am “not qualified” to be president”, he told his supporters at a campaign rally in Philadelphia.
“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. “I don’t think you are qualified if you have supported virtually every disastrous trade agreement which has cost us millions of decent paying jobs”, he said to applause.
“Hillary Clinton did not say Bernie Sanders was ‘not qualified.’ But he has now – absurdly – said it about her. This is a new low”, campaign spokesman Brian Fallon tweeted. “This is a ridiculous and irresponsible attack for someone to make-not just against the person who is nearly certainly going to be the nominee of their party this November, but against someone who is one of the most qualified people to run for the presidency in the HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES”, an e-mail signed by deputy communications director Christina Reynolds said.
Still, Sanders ripped into her, listing a litany of reasons he feels Clinton isn’t “qualified” to be president. So I don’t know quite how to characterize him.
Buoyed by the support of numerous same Republicans who voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor in 2003, Donald Trump leads his challengers in California two months before the state’s presidential primary, according to a new Field Poll.
“China illegally dumps cheap products in our markets, steals our trade secrets, plays games with their currency, gives unfair advantages to state-owned-enterprises and discriminates against American companies”, she said.
“I think he is a very, you know, mean-spirited guy”, Clinton continued. Yet Sanders’ continued presence in the race has become an irritant for the former secretary of state, keeping her from turning her attention to the general election.
She also criticisd Sanders, insisting that “in a number of important areas, he doesn’t have a plan at all”. And in a separate interview with Politico published Wednesday, Clinton said she tries to explain things in a more “open and truthful way than my opponent”.
Crucial contests for Clinton are April 19 in NY, as well as primaries in Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island on April 26, says The Baltimore Sun.
“Hillary Clinton herself just unleashed the first part of the new “disqualify him, defeat him and then they can unify the party later” strategy we told you about”, Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver told his supporters.
That loss may doom his chance to lock up the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the Republican nomination before the party’s convention this summer, but the celebrity businessman appears poised to rack up a significant win in his home state.
He has now won seven of the last eight contests, though he faces a tough road with a series of closed primaries.
Sanders path to the nomination remains narrow: The Vermont senator must win 68 percent of the remaining delegates and uncommitted super delegates if he hopes to clinch the Democratic nomination. Twenty-three of those delegates are required to cast their votes based on the results of the February caucus, when 84,000 Democrats turned out and 53 percent opted for Clinton. That would require blow-out victories by Sanders in upcoming states big and small, including NY.
“This is what makes America great”, she said, alluding to the real estate mogul’s campaign slogan.
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“It’s kind of a silly thing to say”, she said to reporters before boarding the NY subway.
