What Bernie Sanders Is Now Saying About Hillary Clinton’s ‘Damn Emails’

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has changed his tune on Hillary Clinton’s email problem.

Bernie Sanders is upping the ante as he tries to close the gap with frontrunner Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democrats’ 2016 White House nomination and now apparently backs an investigation into the former secretary of state’s email habits, which he had previously opposed. “I did not say, ‘End the investigation.’ That’s silly….Let the investigation proceed unimpeded”.

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The upshot of his remarks then was that the American people would rather hear about the issues than about Clinton’s e-mails. They can both be true.

In the Journal interview, he revived two lines of attack he used recently at Iowa’s iconic Jefferson-Jackson dinner: his long-standing opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and his vote in 2002 against authorizing the war in Iraq. When Jimmy asked her about whether or not she could beat her husband, former PresidentBill Clinton, 69, in an election, she said that while he’s an wonderful campaigner, you’ve got to have a lot of confidence to run for president so absolutely she would win!

Similarly, the thing to watch for now is whether Sanders begins to stray into suggesting the e-mail story sows doubts about Clinton’s honesty or integrity.

“It really does matter what you say when you are president, and it probably should matter what you say when you are running for president”, Clinton said.

He’s embracing the truth too late to do him any good, of course.

He added, “While almost half of Sanders’ support came from potential Biden voters, the third of Clinton voters who might have preferred Biden represent a much larger number of individual voters”.

Politico described it as a “tonal shift”.

A representative from Gardner’s office told ABC News last month that the Vermont Senator is welcome to file as a Democrat, but that he could still face an outside challenge. Most people involved in the state primary process agree that a real challenge to Sanders campaign is unlikely, but Gardner and his staff so far have been unwilling to say outright that Sanders is in the clear.

The FBI is investigating whether the private server contained classified information.

In the debate, he was not asked to respond to Clinton’s emails, but instead interrupted to defend Clinton. Cuomo wondered if it was “a gift” for Clinton. The Republican approach is a minimum government and open market one, which could be stymied by Hillary Clinton’s tax reform. Sanders comes up as a second choice by 37 percent of respondents, but a fourth of respondents said they are undecided. “You may be hearing more about it”.

“I think we can manage it, and I don’t think there should be any unintended consequences to job creation”, Clinton said at another campaign stop at Grinnell College.

“I think a few are doing it because they have strong supporters, people who maybe are from the fossil fuel industry, for example, and they don’t want to cross them so they adopt that position”, she said. “You would have been better off watching the World Series because the debate, in my view, was a swing and a miss”.