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Historic NY

(37,449 posts)
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 07:59 PM Oct 2015

Team Clinton Responds to ‘Mack Truck’ Swipe From Sanders Aide by fund raising..

Hillary Clinton's campaign manager chastised a top aide to Bernie Sanders for threatening Wednesday to run over her campaign with a "Mack truck" if the Democratic front runner goes negative.

"We all know that campaigns are stressful and things can get heated," Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said in a fundraising e-mail. "But this kind of rhetoric comes as a real surprise to me, especially from a candidate who claims to be different and says he won't go negative. This campaign should be about offering forward-looking ideas to help families get ahead, not issuing threats or attacking Democrats."

In a story published Wednesday by Bloomberg, Sanders senior strategist Tad Devine warned the Clinton team that if they go negative, “let them get run over by a Mack truck."

Mook's e-mail asks Clinton supporters to pitch in and give $1 or more to her campaign to show their support.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/trackers/2015-10-28/team-clinton-responds-to-mack-truck-swipe-from-sanders-aide

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Team Clinton Responds to ‘Mack Truck’ Swipe From Sanders Aide by fund raising.. (Original Post) Historic NY Oct 2015 OP
So now we are getting threatened by Sanders campaign members, he really does not want to go the Thinkingabout Oct 2015 #1
I know. well put, T. Cha Oct 2015 #10
I've decided that Devine is a jackass. nt BootinUp Oct 2015 #2
Idiots in control of Bernie's campaign workinclasszero Oct 2015 #3
That ship sailed with "shes shouting because she is a woman" leftofcool Oct 2015 #4
Bingo workinclasszero Oct 2015 #5
I do not think he knows how to control them or direct them effectively. bravenak Oct 2015 #6
I like him GusBob Oct 2015 #7
lol Cha Oct 2015 #9
He's an idiot if he thinks his empty threats are going to have any effect on Hillary. She's been Cha Oct 2015 #8
Sounds to me like they plan to unleash that Mack Truck no matter what. msrizzo Oct 2015 #11
Check that transmission too rbrnmw Oct 2015 #12
LOL... msrizzo Oct 2015 #16
Signs of desperation from the Sanders Campaign.... BooScout Oct 2015 #13
Kick & recommended. William769 Oct 2015 #14
Bernie is turning into a Nasty Old Man!!!!!! Walk away Oct 2015 #15

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
1. So now we are getting threatened by Sanders campaign members, he really does not want to go the
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 08:05 PM
Oct 2015

negative campaign, his candidate has more to lose but sometimes some gets wrapped up in their own cocoon and do not know the world continues to turn. Hillary's campaign does not need to go negative, Sanders campaign is one of his biggest problems. Hillary has been vetted for so many years and has continued to stand tall, Sanders has never been vetted as Hillary has, he would have a hard time standing up under the pressures she has been.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
3. Idiots in control of Bernie's campaign
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 08:16 PM
Oct 2015

He needs to rein them in before he embarrasses himself

Oh wait, too late.

Cha

(297,221 posts)
8. He's an idiot if he thinks his empty threats are going to have any effect on Hillary. She's been
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 10:44 PM
Oct 2015

through it all and it only makes her stronger.

Actually, I don't think much of tad devine at all.. he doesn't seem to have a sense of what's going on in the real world.

msrizzo

(796 posts)
11. Sounds to me like they plan to unleash that Mack Truck no matter what.
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 10:56 PM
Oct 2015

But they better check the tires, I think they are a little flat.

rbrnmw

(7,160 posts)
12. Check that transmission too
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 08:40 AM
Oct 2015

It might only go in reverse. It's like when he put Dukakis in a tank and tanked his campaign.

BooScout

(10,406 posts)
13. Signs of desperation from the Sanders Campaign....
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 10:19 AM
Oct 2015

It's just a matter of time until it completely collapses.

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
15. Bernie is turning into a Nasty Old Man!!!!!!
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 11:00 AM
Oct 2015

I don't think the "Millennials" are going to think of him as a Teddy Bear anymore!

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