Salon: Bernie Sanders surrogate finds sneaky way to inject Monica Lewinsky into 2016 debate [View all]

[Cali_Democrat]

BY SOPHIA TESFAYE

Bernie Sanders has repeatedly said he is committed to battling Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination to the very end, insisting that all future attacks will be policy based, but now one of his most active Hollywood supporters is invoking Monica Lewinsky to accuse Clinton of bullying the Sanders campaign.

“We are literally under attack for not just supporting the other candidate,” actress and top Sanders surrogate Rosario Dawson said at a Sanders campaign rally in Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday. “Now, I’m with Monica Lewinsky with this,” she continued, invoking the infamous White House intern. “Bullying is bad. She has actually dedicated her life now to talking about that. And now, as a campaign strategy, we are being bullied, and, somehow that is O.K. and not being talked about with the richness that it needs”:

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Asked about Dawson’s comments on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, Sanders struggled to explain what Dawson was suggesting.

“One of your high-profile surrogates, actress Rosario Dawson, invoked Monica Lewinsky at one of your rallies,” host Jake Tapper said to the Vermont senator. “Do you think it’s appropriate for your surrogates to be talking about Monica Lewinsky on the campaign trail?”

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