Clinton aims to drive wedge on guns between Obama, Sanders

Clinton challenged Sanders hours after an aide suggested that he may not be able to secure Obama’s endorsement if he were to become the Democratic nominee because of differences over gun policy. Women say Clinton is more respectful by 55-31 percent. “He’s defended his vote time and again”.

“It’s not every day that a sitting president is unable to commit to supporting a potential nominee of his party”, Clinton press secretary Brian Fallon said on a conference call, responding to Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver’s assertion earlier in the day that there’s “about zero daylight between the president and Senator Bernie Sanders” on guns.

Obama vowed in an op-ed released Thursday not to back any candidate, including Democrats, who doesn’t support restricting guns.

The clip, posted on Trump’s Instagram account, showed a succession of pictures, among them one of former USA president Bill Clinton standing beside Lewinsky, the White House intern with whom he had an extramarital affair in the late 1990s.

The Sanders campaign declined comment.

While Bernie Sanders has seen his stock rise and rise in the last few months, and more importantly towards the end of the previous year, Hillary Clinton campaign management is very concerned about his fund raising prowess.

“How can she do that when she’s got one of the great women abusers of all time sitting in her house, waiting for her to come home for dinner?”

Clinton arguably boasts experience in government unparalleled by anyone in the presidential field – but that has also made her a high-profile target for attack. “He can’t win, so don’t bother voting Bernie because he can’t win.’ Let me respectfully disagree with that statement”, Sanders told a crowd of more than 600 gathered at Wartburg College on Friday afternoon. “So it represents a very clear choice in a Democratic primary”. Then-Sens. Clinton and Barack Obama, by contrast, voted against the bill. “When people pay into something, they own it; they are invested in it; and nobody is going to take it away from us”, Sanders said to applause.

But Clinton’s criticism of Sanders’ record went beyond the immunity law. In response, he has said he would revisit the legislation, but has declined to say that he regrets the vote.

Sanders has defended his record on guns by noting that Vermont is a rural state with nearly no control He has said he could have a moderating impact on the gun debate bridging urban and rural America.

On Friday, Clinton invoked other votes from Sanders’ past to make the case that he had faltered in his judgement of gun violence and its impact on America.