Hillary Clinton\u2019s new barrage against Bernie Sanders, the Democratic presidential primary opponent she has all but ignored through most of her campaign, is having an effect \u2014 though probably not the one she intended.<\/span>
<\/span>Sanders\u2019s underdog campaign said it is seeing a surge of contributions as a direct result of the new attention it is getting from the Democratic front-runner, with money coming in at a clip nearly four times the average daily rate reported in the last quarter of 2015.<\/span>
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<\/span>The former secretary of state and her team have stepped up their criticism of Sanders on a variety of fronts in recent days as polls have begun to show him edging even with her in Iowa \u2014 and, for the first time, looking competitive in a national poll. But the Clinton strategy may be backfiring in some ways.<\/span>
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<\/span>\u201cAs of now, we are at about $1.4 million raised since yesterday when the panic attacks by the Clinton campaign began,\u201d Briggs said. \u201cWe\u2019ve gotten 47,000 contributions. We\u2019re projecting 60,000 donations. Even for our people-powered campaign, this is pretty darn impressive.\u201d<\/span>
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<\/span>Even her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, got into the act, bashing Sanders during her first campaign appearance on behalf of her mother this election season.<\/span>
<\/span>\u201cSenator Sanders wants to dismantle Obamacare, dismantle the [Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program], dismantle Medicare and dismantle private insurance,\u201d Chelsea Clinton said at a stop in New Hampshire. \u201cI worry if we give Republicans Democratic permission to do that, we\u2019ll go back to an era \u2014 before we had the Affordable Care Act \u2014 that would strip millions and millions and millions of people off their health insurance.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nLudicrous, and dishonest, and more significantly, desperate.<\/p>\n
Hillary’s strength this cycle was her aura of inevitability, and that appears to be vanishing like the mist<\/p>\n
As I recall, inevitability was her perceived strength in 2008 as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hillary Clinton has been going after Bernie Sanders’ single payer healthcare proposals, claiming that single payer would take their healthcare away, and she’s rolled out Chelsea on the campaign trail. It is ludicrous and dishonest, and it has led to a huge spike in contributions to the Sanders campaign: Hillary Clinton\u2019s new barrage against Bernie …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1107,1094,1046,965,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bernie-sanders","category-campaign-finance","category-healthcare","category-hillary-clinton","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}