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Showing Original Post only (View all)Hillary Clinton Won't Commit to Helping Bernie Sanders Win in 2020 [View all]
Former secretary of state claims "nobody likes" Vermont senator, currently a leading presidential Democratic candidate and the most popular elected politician in the country.CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza argued Clinton's attack was actually "great news for" Sanders:
Sanders is running this 2020 presidential campaign (as he did the 2016 campaign) on a simple premise: the powerful have been sitting comfortably for way too long and it's time to shake things up. Sanders was vilifying the elites and the political establishment (of both parties) long before Donald Trump even started considering running for president.
This is who Sanders is; it's who he has always been. It's at the core of why people support him and why he has been able to build a movement around his back-to-back presidential candidacies.
Guess who, for lots and lots of Sanders supporters (and even other Democrats who don't support him) epitomizes that elite establishment? The Clintons!
While the Sanders campaign had yet to respond to Clinton's comments, Cillizza recommended Sanders should send her "a thank you note for the well-timed attack."
Jewish Currents news editor David Klion tweeted that the interview was another indication of the lasting legacy of Clinton and her husband, Bill Clinton, the 43rd president.
"Start to finish, one of the most selfish, petty, nihilistic, counterproductive careers in American political history," said Klion. "Every time they open their mouths it makes things worse. History will not remember the Clintons fondly."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/21/inexcusable-hillary-clinton-who-lost-trump-2016-wont-commit-helping-bernie-sanders
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Hillary Clinton Won't Commit to Helping Bernie Sanders Win in 2020 [View all]
billpolonsky
Jan 2020
OP
I seem to recall in the last general election someone saying it wasn't his job to convince people
still_one
Jan 2020
#1
Perhaps she is saying this currently so as to not unduly influence the voters on which Democratic
cstanleytech
Jan 2020
#5
The Boundless Bernie Bashing Backlash ALWAYS helps...it splains Bernie's recent surge in the polls!!
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jan 2020
#27
To be honest I do not care what Democrat wins the nomination as I intend to fully support them as
cstanleytech
Jan 2020
#42
Either way, the Boundless Bernie Bashing Backlash is why Bernie's surgin, so I hope it keeps up!!
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jan 2020
#29
I suspect that history will be very kind to the Clintons, assuming our democracy manages to survive.
StevieM
Jan 2020
#23
I don't recall such anguish when Sanders said Clinton had to win the support of
Demsrule86
Jan 2020
#31
The claim in the OP is a false-Hillary Clinton is a real Democrat and will support the nominee
Gothmog
Jan 2020
#37
Did she say it was his job to win over her supporters from last years General?
Demsrule86
Jan 2020
#39