As the New York Times reports, he mocked Sanders’s criticism of the “establishment”, snarking that according to Sanders, “Anybody that doesn’t agree with me is a tool of the establishment”. “So, they know a little something about what that’s like and have clearly have feelings about it”.
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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.
Although Hillary Clinton finds Albright’s comment amusing, social networks were flooded with comments that were not amusing in the least.
“If you point it out, it just shows how tied you are to the establishment”, he said.
“I went to events, but did I go and ask financial people for money?”
Both interventions backfired on Mrs Clinton as many young women said they were “insulted” to be told they should vote purely on the basis of their gender.
Bill Clinton has chose to start attacking his wife’s opponent for the Democratic nomination for president, since that worked so well eight years ago.
“When the exact same problems crop up in separate campaigns, with different staff, at what point do the principals say, ‘Hey, maybe it’s US?'” Axelrod tweeted. Mary Fagan of Bow attended a Sanders rally in Portsmouth on Sunday afternoon after seeing Clinton in Concord on Saturday. “That is what democracy is”.
But Sanders, who as Vermont senator is no stranger to the state, has built a strong advantage here and hopes to push back against Clinton’s argument that she would be the most electable Democrat in the November election. He sees his critiques of Sanders as substantive and fair game. “He just feels that if that is going to be the case, it is fair for him to be held to that same standard and for him to call it out”.
Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, played the good cop to her husband’s bad cop. The entire experience made her a deeply vulnerable frontrunner out of the gate, and underscored a lack of trust between Clinton and her operatives, many of whom were former Obama staffers that she didn’t consider part of her inner circle of trust.
Deriding Sanders’s health care plan, which would would raise taxes in order to scrap premiums, the former president said the state he once “campaigned in really cared that you knew what you were doing, and how it was paid for”.
Bill Clinton tells NBC’s Andrea Mitchell young people are mad, and rightly so, but need to listen to who will what caused the anger, what’s the best remedy and who is most likely to empower them.
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“People who have gone online to defend Hillary and explain why they support her have been subject to vicious trolling and attacks that are literally too profane – not to mention sexist – to repeat”, Bill Clinton said.
