Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Sunday that he doesn’t have “the vaguest idea” what rival Hillary Clinton is referring to by calling him a “single-issue candidate.”
CNN “State of the Union” host Jake Tapper asked Sanders how he interpreted Clinton’s criticism.
“I haven’t the vaguest idea what she’s talking about. If she thinks that income and wealth inequality, and the fact that the rich get richer while everybody else gets poorer is the only issue, it’s not,” Sanders replied.
He continued speaking, addressing where he stands on other issues such as climate change and health care.
“We’re talking about dozens of issues so I’m not quite sure where Secretary Clinton is coming from,” he said.
Could be that you have been primary focused on economic inequality/ the corruption of money during your campaign.
I happen to agree with Bernie that this is the biggest issue facing our country, but he has been primarily focused on it and not a wide swath.
“We’re talking about dozens of issues so I’m not quite sure where Secretary Clinton is coming from,” he said.
Binders full of issues!
What you talk about is what builds people’s impressions of you. It’s self-created.
It’s Bernie’s version of Rubio’s “Obama knows exactly what he’s doing…”, where every question inevitably leads back to income inequality.
Of course Sanders talks about other stuff – but then he usually circles back to big banks and campaign finance reform.
I was listening to him do so during one of the debates a while back, and it suddenly flashed into my head that if I asked him about an ingrown toenail, or chickweed in my garden he’d probably blame it all on Wall Street and billionaire contributors.
No, not everything can be blamed directly on rich people. Racism and ethnic enmities play as much a part of discrimination and poverty as wealth and finance. Hillary gets that, but I’m not sure Sanders does.