Hillary Clinton slammed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for accusing her of representing insider politics during Thursday’s Democratic presidential debate.
“Senator Sanders is the only person who would characterize me, a woman running to be the first woman president, as exemplifying the establishment,” she said.
“It’s really quite amusing to me,” Clinton continued.
The Vermont senator had drawn a contrast between his grassroots campaign and the one run by Clinton, who has received many more high-profile endorsements.
“I will absolutely admit that Secretary Clinton has the support of far more governors, more mayors, members of the House,” Sanders said. “She has the entire establishment or almost the entire establishment behind her. That’s a fact.”
The two have clashed over this issue previously on the campaign trail, with Sanders framing himself as a populist alternative to Clinton’s old-school Washington insider brand of politics.
How could Senator Sanders not have colleagues endorsing him? Interesting!
And what, exactly, is wrong about that? I mean, sincerely and seriously? Bernie says this to criticize her, as if she having the support were something evil. What does he find problematic about that? I know he wants to differentiate himself, but this is silly IMHO. There is nothing productive and substantive with such statements.
All good points, slightly off topic, they both seem tired.
can you blame them? They barely just finished Iowa.
Bad sign if that is indeed the case… as you just said above, coalition building does matter to translate policy proposals into concrete reality.