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'Nobody likes him' - Hillary Clinton bashes Bernie Sanders

 

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FILE PHOTO: Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders stand together during a campaign rally where Sanders endorsed Clinton in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S., July 12, 2016. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton criticized the campaign of her former Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders in a new documentary in which she says he was an ineffective U.S. senator who accomplished little because "nobody liked him."

 

Clinton also weighed in on the dispute between Sanders and 2020 Democratic presidential rival Elizabeth Warren centering around the electability of women, saying Sanders demonstrated "a pattern" in how his campaign attacked women rivals.

 

The criticism, made in a Hulu documentary to be shown at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday and an interview promoting it, revealed lingering bitterness toward Sanders after he mounted an unexpected Democratic primary challenge to Clinton in 2016. Clinton backers blame Sanders' supporters for tarnishing her with vitriolic criticism that helped put Republican Donald Trump in the White House.

 

Hillary Clinton criticized the campaign of her former Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders in a new documentary in which she says he was an ineffective U.S. senator who accomplished little because "nobody liked him." Yahaira Jacquez reports.

 

"He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It's all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it," Clinton says in the documentary, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

 

Asked recently by the magazine if that assessment still holds, Clinton said, "Yes, it does."

 

Sanders said in a statement that "my focus today is on a monumental moment in American history: the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Together, we are going to go forward and defeat the most dangerous president in American history."

 

Clinton did not commit to endorsing and campaigning for Sanders should he win the nomination this year, citing a competitive Democratic field, but she criticized his campaign as having a culture of insult and attack.

 

"I will say, however, that it's not only him, it's the culture around him. It's his leadership team. It's his prominent supporters. It's his online Bernie Bros and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women," Clinton told the Hollywood Reporter.

 

When she was asked about the dispute over whether Sanders told Warren in a private conversation that a woman could not beat Trump, Clinton pointed out that she got 3 million more votes than Trump in the 2016 presidential election.

 

Clinton called the dispute part of a pattern with Sanders, noting he had attacked her as being unqualified despite her experience, including as secretary of state and a U.S. senator.

 

She encouraged voters "to elect a president who's going to try to bring us together, and not either turn a blind eye, or actually reward the kind of insulting, attacking, demeaning, degrading behavior that we've seen from this current administration."

 

(Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Additional reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt and Simon Lewis; Editing by Andrea Ricci)

 

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47 minutes ago, ezzra said:

Like her or not, the US doesn't need, want or even ready for an old socialist dreamer geezer, maybe some despot rejims in S. American can use him...

I don't agree your rhetoric but I do think it would be a mistake for the democrats to nominate him. 

 

Last call for Amy Klobuchar. Is a New York times endorsement Chopped liver? 

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2 minutes ago, bendejo said:

Probably a response to Bernie not showing enthusiastic support for her as general election candidate in 2016.  If Bernie would have energized his base for her it would have changed history.  But what can she expect when she used party back-channels against him in the primaries?

Tsk tsk, missus.

 

 

She beat him overwhelmingly in that primary. She didn't need super delegates to do that. But I don't blame Bernie for her loss. 

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1 hour ago, PremiumLane said:

ahh liberals, always getting the wrong end of the stick. I would say not being endorsed by Clinton is a huge boost - she is nothing but a neo-liberal shrill who couldn't even muster a proper response to the stupidity of Trump. 

Funny. The clown car of Republicans in the primary couldn't manage to beat him either. 

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1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

But I don't blame Bernie for her loss. 

But she probably does.

Meanwhile Bubba blamed her for not campaigning in enough blue-collar areas, as he advised.  Buzz was they were not on speaking terms for a while over this.

My lesson in her popularity (or lack of) was in 2008, when she was the primary favorite, then when Obama entered the race nearly every Dem went for him in very short order.

I would prefer to never hear from the three of them ever again.  I did get a laugh out of that Gabbard thing a few weeks back, though.

 

 

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47 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

I don't agree your rhetoric but I do think it would be a mistake for the democrats to nominate him. 

 

Last call for Amy Klobuchar. Is a New York times endorsement Chopped liver? 

 

If only white people ate chopped liver, than yes it is.     

   

   https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/479123-rising-january-21-2020

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30 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

This coming from the worst democratic candidate since Mike Dukakis. A note to Hillary. You are not well liked, and you are respected by very few. The abuses you and your husband have committed with your foundation alone, are an abomination. You are a gangster, and the disrespect you and your party showed Bernie in 2016 cost you the election. your inane statements like the "deplorables' cost you 2 million votes. You made at least five major blunders that could have represented millions of votes each. Even Trump did not think he was going to win. You blew it big time. Go away. 

 

Yet, you never learn, do you?

Pointing fingers at the moral failings of voters for their defeats.

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51 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Be fair they did have many , many years in office in which to change the counting system and mad state calculation method

What are you talking about?

If you mean the electoral college that can only be changed by a constitutional amendment which would be almost impossible to pass.

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