Jane Sanders: Albright’s Comments ‘Unfortunate And Disturbing’ (VIDEO)

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Jane Sanders, the wife of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), on Wednesday said she found former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s comments urging female voters to support Hillary Clinton “disturbing.”

Albright over the weekend told young women that it was important for them to support Clinton’s presidential bid as feminists, saying, “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other!”

“I found them unfortunate and disturbing,” Jane Sanders told HuffPost Live about Albright’s comments. “I think that women today are a little bit more intelligent to say — to not say, ‘Okay, all I care about is gender.’ By that case, then, if Bernie won the Democratic nomination and Carly Fiorina won the Republican nomination, we should be supporting Carly Fiorina.”

Jane Sanders also addressed comments made by Gloria Steinem, who told Bill Maher recently that young women support Bernie Sanders because that’s where the boys are.” Steinem later apologized for the remark.

“She apologized. I know that young people were offended by it, but it was a mistake,” Jane Sanders said on Wednesday. “That’s what I don’t like about politics too much, that somebody makes a misstatement. We know her life has been about equity for women and feminism. She made a mistake, she said so. I absolutely still respect her very much.”

Watch the video via HuffPost Live:

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