Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Sunday that rival Hillary Clinton’s emails were “a very serious issue,” but that he didn’t want to “politicize” the issue.
Sanders told Clinton at the first Democratic debate that he thought the American people were tired of hearing about “your damn emails.”
When CNN “State of the Union” host Jake Tapper asked Sanders to clarify how he felt about Clinton’s emails, he said he didn’t want to “politicize that issue.”
“I think this is a very serious issue,” Sanders said. “I think there is a legal process right now taking place. And what I have said — and — you know, and I get criticized. ‘You know, Bernie, why don’t you attack Hillary Clinton? There is a legal process taking place.’ I do not want to politicize that issue. It is not my
style. And what I am focusing on, Jake, are the issues impacting the
middle class of this country.”
