Hillary Clinton lambasts Sanders as Democrat nomination race heats up
HILLARY CLINTON has dismissed Bernie Sanders as a “career politician” who “nobody likes” in a scathing attack on her 2016 rival as she weighed into the Democratic presidential nomination race.
She also declined to commit to backing Mr Sanders if he wins the race to take on Donald Trump in November.
The remarks, made in a four-part documentary, Hillary, which will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. come just before the first votes are cast in the Democratic primaries on Feb 3.
“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,” Mrs Clinton says in the documen- tary. It underscores the lingering bitterness Mrs Clinton has towards Mr Sanders, who launched an unexpected challenge against her presidential nomination in 2016.
Mrs Clinton also waded into the dispute between Mr Sanders and his rival for the 2020 presidential nomination Elizabeth Warren, saying the Vermont senator’s campaign had demonstrated “a pattern” of attacking female rivals.
“This argument about whether or not or when he did or didn’t say that a woman couldn’t be elected, it’s part of a pattern,” Mrs Clinton said.
She refused to say whether she would endorse Mr Sanders should he win the nomination this year, citing the competitive Democratic field, but she characterised his campaign as having a culture of insult and attack.