Bill Clinton Accuses Sanders of ‘Sexist’ Attacks

During last Thursday’s Democrat debate, Clinton said, “Senator Sanders is the only person who I think would characterize me – a woman running to be the first woman president – as exemplifying the establishment”. Hillary Clinton’s 2008 victory in New Hampshire likewise helped revive, for a time, her unsuccessful campaign against Barack Obama. Hours before the good people in Dixville Notch cast their midnight ballots, the UMass/7News tracking poll had Sanders up 16 points over Clinton. “You’re just for me or against me”, Clinton said and the crowd laughed.

Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN)Hillary and Bill Clinton didn’t back off their critiques of Bernie Sanders during a rally in Manchester on Monday, despite receiving some negative press for them the day earlier. But as Hillary Clinton is looking to seize momentum from Sanders, Bill Clinton’s attacks have grown more pointed.

“He says anybody that doesn’t agree with me is a tool of the establishment, anybody who takes money from Goldman Sachs couldn’t possibly be president. The voters in New Hampshire and in America deserve a campaign that focuses on the real issues”. “Sanders has said he denounces it. So, you know, we encourage people to follow his lead and talk about the issues, talk about the positive side”.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has erased Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s wide lead for the Democratic presidential nomination since the start of year, putting the two in a dead heat nationally, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Both interventions backfired on Mrs Clinton as many young women said they were “insulted” to be told they should vote purely on the basis of their gender. Clinton insisted her speeches promoted her own views, and at the time, she didn’t know she would be running for president.

She ended resolutely: “I don’t know anything other to do than just keep forging through it, and just keep taking the slings and arrows that come with being a woman in the arena”.

In Iowa, it was Clinton who delivered withering critiques from behind the podium in early January, while Bill Clinton stuck to softer terrain of vouching for his wife qualifications as president, as well as a spouse and mother.

Sanders disavowing such tactics; “Anybody who is supporting me, that is doing sexist things is, we don’t want them”.