Hillary Clinton slams ‘baloney Bernie’ Sanders and his ‘bro’ fans who ‘relentlessly attack rivals, especially women’
HILLARY Clinton is not here for Bernie Sanders or his “bros” – she slammed him and his supporters for what she claims are continuous attacks on his rivals, particularly women.
Clinton panned Sanders as a “career politician” in an upcoming documentary and claims he “permitted” the attacks on female competitors like Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris.
“I don’t think we want to go down that road again where you campaign by insult and attack and maybe you try to get some distance from it, but you either don’t know what your campaign and supporters are doing or you’re just giving them a wink and you want them to go after Kamala [Harris] or after Elizabeth [Warren],” she told The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday.
When asked whether she would endorse and campaign her former Democratic rival, the ex-senator remained mum.
However, Clinton did elaborate on the comments he allegedly made to Warren in December 2018 about the improbability of a female presidency.
The 72-year-old seemingly suggested that Sanders’ comments are part of a larger pattern of sexism that’s reflected in the current presidential administration.
“This argument about whether or not or when he did or didn’t say that a woman couldn’t be elected, it’s part of a pattern,” she said.
“If it was a one-off, you might say, “OK, fine.” But he said I was unqualified. I had a lot more experience than he did, and got a lot more done than he had, but that was his attack on me.
“I just think people need to pay attention because we want, hopefully, to elect a president who’s going to try to bring us together, and not either turn a blind eye or actually reward the king of insulting, attacking, demeaning, degrading behavior we’ve seen from this current administration.”
In an upcoming four-part Hulu series on her life and career, she claims “nobody likes” or wants to work with the 78-year-old Vermont senator and dismissed his political persona as “baloney.”
Clinton has criticized Sanders for creating a lack of unity within the Democratic party in the past.
There’s no love lost between the Democratic rivals, who appeared to have a terse relationship from the start of their 2016 campaigns.
The former presidential hopeful partly blames her failed White House bid on Sanders’ late endorsement of her candidacy.
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Although she said she didn’t “hate” Sanders for his lengthy primary campaign against her in 2016, she claimed his late endorsement “hurt her” in an interview with Howard Stern last month.
However, Clinton got the last laugh – she subtly implied Sanders would once again fall short of the Democratic nomination in 2020.
“He hurt me, there’s no doubt about it,” she told Stern.
“And I hope he doesn’t do it again to whoever gets the nomination. Once is enough.”
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