Gloria Steinem Is Sorry She Insulted Women Who Support Bernie Sanders
Almost defeated in Iowa, trailing in New Hampshire, and anxious about everywhere else, Hillary Clinton’s campaign is bringing out the big guns, releasing political kraken Bill Clinton and summoning feminist icons Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright to reclaim young female voters who have flocked to Bernie Sanders.
In New Hampshire, you can feel the excitement among the candidates, voters, and the media ahead of Tuesday’s primary.
The hand shaking as well as the campaigning for his wife continue as Bill Clinton attacked Bernie Sanders and his supporters over the weekend.
The former president slammed the Sanders campaign as shady and untrustworthy, despite their peace-loving image and Sanders’s high authenticity numbers. He reportedly labeled Sanders as “the champion of all things small and the enemy of all things big”.
She said: “When you’re young, you’re thinking “Where are the boys?”
Bill Clinton tore into the Sanders campaign Sunday at an event in New Hampshire, mocking Sanders’s anti-establishment, pro-revolution platform. Sanders won the youth vote in Iowa with a stunning 84%, and polling in New Hampshire indicates that 64% of women under 45 are “feeling the Bern”. “I wish it were for a different reason” said Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as she spoke in Flint Sunday afternoon.
But if there’s a calculation behind the anger, it might be this: Hillary Clinton needs to do a better job of attracting female voters.
“But they’re not, they’re attacking her. Because they know that she’s got a stronger plan and they know that when she says she’s going to do something, she’s going to do it”, Bill Clinton told the crowd.
Albright has used a version of the line “special place in hell for women who don’t help other women” in other contexts, and it has been memorialized on Starbucks coffee cups. “When you’re making a revolution, you can’t be too careful with the facts”, he sniped, according to The New York Times. The latest, from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell and 7 News, shows the Vermont senator enjoying a 16-point lead over the former secretary of state.
“Bernie’s a socialist – that ain’t gonna happen”, Kasich said, adding that Clinton would “run America with pollsters”.
In an interview with CNN, Mr Clinton also attempted to stunt Mr Sanders’ claim that his wife is beholden to Wall Street and soaked in its money, saying that he too has taken money from bankers.
Sanders’ communications director Michael Briggs said he was disappointed by President Clinton’s remarks. “I don’t know that there is ever any absolute answer, like, “OK, universe, here I am, watch me roar” or ‘Oh, my gosh, I can’t do it, it’s just overwhelming, I have to retreat'”.
“We can’t get in a place where we’re so mad that we demonize anyone who is against us, where we can’t have an honest discussion about health care, where anyone who is on the other side is part of a mystical ‘establishment, ‘” Clinton said.