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(1,779 posts)And those issues are important to the majority of Americans.
Maybe the problem was the Morning Joe inspired dustup after which Bernie said that he might have questions about Hillary's qualifications.
A day before that in the Morning Joe Show, morning Joe asked Hillary three times if she thought that Bernie was qualified, and three time she refused to answer "yes", thereby suggesting (as far as I can tell) that she thought she concerns about Bernie's general qualifications. Unfortunately, that was made into a Washington Post headline in that precipitated Bernie's statement regarding his wondering whether Hillary was qualified--if she believed certain things.
Things are pretty much always said in the heat of a campaign that one regrets, and I'm sure both Hillary and Bernie regret that little dustup.
And of course there are trolls, tribal loyalties, and Russian bots who exploited whatever rifts started to appear.