Meanwhile, former Secretary of State Clinton’s campaign was teaming up for GOTV activities with American Federation for Teachers’ President Randi Weingarten, whose organization has endorsed Clinton.
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Longtime feminist advocate Gloria Steinem, 81, said Friday on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” that “when you’re young, you’re thinking, ‘Where are the boys?’ The boys are with Bernie”. She’s clearly hoping for a strong coalition of support from women but she might not get it. “Honest to goodness. I mean, people can’t say anything without offending somebody”, Clinton argued. “I can only do my very best to try to put those to rest”.
But Hillary and Bill took different tacks in their attempt to convince Sanders’s youthful supporters to turn away from the Vermont senator and self-described socialist.
He pinned the December breach of the Clinton campaign’s voter database in October on the Sanders campaign, and said that Sanders’s apology was two-faced. And as a result of that, I want them to give us free ice cream.
David Axelrod, the chief strategist for both of Obama’s presidential campaigns, sent out a tweet Monday afternoon that obliquely referenced the Politico report and suggested that Clinton herself may be to blame for the staffing issues. “I have to tell you when I went for my first job when I was 22 years old, they said, ‘So what are you going to do, honey?’ I’m not sure that young women get that now”.
“We don’t yet know how many children have been affected by lead poisoning, we don’t yet know how many challenges they will face”, she said from the pulpit of Flint’s House of Prayers.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is joined onstage by senators Al Franken (C) and Jeanne Shaheen (L) at a campaign rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, February 6, 2016.
“You guys say you’re running a positive campaign, but it was your campaign that made 25 separate inquires in the mere space of 30 minutes trying to loot information [from Hillary Clinton’s campaign] out of computers”, Clinton said.
True as these claims may be, Bill Clinton-you know, the guy who screwed his intern-is probably not the right guy to be making them.
Sanders said he hears Republicans decry welfare recipients and told the crowd: “Do you know who is the major welfare recipient in America? And I think we all have to remember that no matter what age we are, that things can always go back”.
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Albright’s message to young women is that passion is not as important as policy.
