Bill Clinton said Sanders’ message was “hermetically-sealed” from reality and ridiculed its implication that “anybody that doesn’t agree… is a tool of the establishment'”.
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Clinton leads Sanders 48 percent to 45 percent among Democratic voters, according to the poll of 512 Americans, conducted February 2-5 following the Iowa caucus.
Sanders, who has railed against Wall Street excess, called it a dishonest attack by a desperate campaign.
At Sunday’s event, Clinton painted Sanders as a foolhardy candidate whose proposals aren’t paid for and whose supporters include misogynists. He reportedly labeled Sanders as “the champion of all things small and the enemy of all things big”. That victory helped her become the new “Comeback Kid” – the same moniker her husband Bill Clinton proclaimed after his second-place finish in the state in 1992 jumpstarted his road to the nomination.
New Hampshire has been tough ground for Hillary Clinton.
Currently, Hillary Clinton is trailing Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire polls among likely Democratic voters.
Although Bill Clinton did not mention the group by name, it seemed he was referring to the so-called “Bernie Bros” – a term used by some Clinton allies to disparage some male Sanders supporters who allegedly write sexist comments to Clinton supporters online.
“I have never, ever been influenced in a view or a vote by anyone who has given me any kind of money”, Clinton said on ABC’s “This Week”.
She then spoke about her granddaughter, Charlotte, and said she “really could not imagine” how the people of Flint must be feeling.
President Clinton softened his criticism of Sanders, though only by a notch. The Vermont Democratic Party, which backed Sanders in his independent Senate bid, received another $100,000. But if Sanders wins on Tuesday, the race will be more interesting for a while.
It also reflects a changing strategy for the ex-president, who until recent days has played a largely understated role in this campaign after earning damaging headlines in 2008 for calling Barack Obama’s election platform a “fairy tale.”
Boy, I tell you, on the Democrat side, this cratering of Hillary Clinton appears to be real.
“There is still a huge double standard”, Clinton told a voter in a town hall at the New England College about running for president as a woman.
In The Washington Post, Greg Sargent called Bill Clinton’s attacks “a tad over the top”.
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“When I think about what young people today have gone through, what they have known from our country, starting with a awful attack on 9/11, going into the great recession, there is no wonder that they along with so many of us are saying, wait a minute, we are better than this, we can do more”, she said.
