ON POLITICS

The Democratic race heads west to Nevada, while Republicans descend on South Carolina for contests Feb. 20. More news from the world of politics:

SANDERS IS NO KISSINGER FAN

At Thursday’s Democratic debate in Milwaukee, Bernie Sanders sounded off on a former secretary of State’s “destructive” diplomatic record. And not Hillary Clinton’s. The Vermont senator took aim at Henry Kissinger, the foreign policy hand for Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford who served from 1973 to 1977.

Sanders took issue with the positive words Clinton touted from Kissinger about her tenure at the State Department, then went after Kissinger himself. “I happen to believe that Henry Kissinger was one of the most destructive secretaries of State in the modern history of this country,” Sanders said, adding he was “proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend.”

BATTLE ON TWITTER

It was a tough week for Marco Rubio since his widely panned debate performance three days ahead of the New Hampshire primary (in which he placed fifth) when he was pummeled by Chris Christie for repeating the same line about President Obama.

Clinton, or at least her social media team, decided to twist the knife Thursday, parroting in a tweet the line Rubio used repeatedly at the debate in a Twitter burn that simultaneously jabbed at Sanders: “Let’s dispel with this fiction that @POTUS doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing.” The accompanying article Clinton shared was about Sanders critiquing Obama’s leadership.

Rubio then tweeted “@HillaryClinton knew exactly what she was doing and the FBI would like to know too,” along with an article about an FBI investigation of Clinton’s private email server.