Clinton Doubles Down On ATTACK AGAINST SANDERS

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She laid into her main Democratic rival, Bernie Sanders, on guns. And she began road-testing a new campaign slogan she debuted earlier this week on the debate stage, "I'm a progressive who likes to get things done." Campaigning at a raucous 2,500 person outdoor “Latinos for Hillary” rally in San Antonio two days after the first democratic debate, Hillary Clinton began to demonstrate how the exchanges with her opponents on the CNN stage are helping to refine her campaign message and attacks on her opponents.


Clinton was in town to pick up the endorsement of Housing Secretary Julian Castro, the former mayor here whose name is often tossed around as a potential vice president pick, and make an appeal to Latino voters. But she used the appearance to hit back at Vermont Sen. Sanders on the one issue where she can attack him from the left, gun control — she responded forcefully to a debate comment he made that "all the shouting in the world" will not keep guns out of the hands of killers. On the CNN stage Tuesday, Sanders said that “as a senator from a rural state, what I can tell Secretary Clinton, is that all the shouting in the world is not going to do what I would hope all of us want, and that is to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have those guns and end this horrible violence we are seeing.”


Clinton appeared eager to address his claim at the top of her speech. “No matter what anyone says, this isn't just an urban problem, no way. It's a problem in small towns, suburbs, out in the country, across America,” said Clinton. “I've been told by some, to quit talking about this, quit shouting about this,” she said. Clinton also tried to paint Sanders’ gun control views as out of touch with where the majority of the country is on the issue. “I will tell you right now I will not be silenced,” she said, “and we will not be silenced. I will keep taking on the NRA. How many more people have to die before we take action? How many people have to think twice now about going to church? The majority of Americans and the majority of gun owners support the changes I am recommending.”


Sanders’ team was pushing back, post-debate, against the hits he took from his fellow Democrats for voting against the Brady Bill, which mandates federal background checks on gun purchases, and against an attack from Clinton who said Sanders' positions on gun control don't go far enough.

“If Bernie was a real NRA guy, which is the allegation, it would stick,” said his senior advisor Tad Devine. “But he’s a guy who is opposed to assault weapons since 1988, who wants to close the gun show loophole, who has earned a D- lifetime rating from the NRA.” Devine said he did not expect attacks on Sanders’ record on guns to stick “because it’s not credible. The guy is not getting an A from the NRA,” he said.

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http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/hillary-sanders-hispanics-214856

[JaneyVee]

1. Facts are now attacks and online polls are now gospel.

Welcome to DU primary season 2015.

[Fearless]

30. They are lies.

[Cali_Democrat]

2. Bernie didn't handle the gun control issue well when O'Malley went after him

Bernie looked confused and befuddled.

[randys1]

11. And HIllary doesnt need to do this, bad advice to go after Bernie on this.

It is disappointing that she is doing this.

[Fawke Em]

25. And Hillary looked POLISHED

I don't like that.

Tired of tests.

[Fearless]

31. That's simply untrue

Bernie was completely accurate in describing the difference between urban and rural populations.

[artislife]

3. I have never seen her run on her 3 bills that she sponsored and got passed

I wonder why.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

12. hmmm...good question!

[onehandle]

4. I don't see a negative here.

If the 'Not Hillary' Party is going to hang their hopes on NRA gun nuttery to draw liberals, they are sadly mistaken.

[Fawke Em]

26. I'm not "Not Hillary." I'm Pro-Bernie

Hillary isn't crap to me.

[hrmjustin]

5. What is the problem here?

I don't see one.

[Armstead]

10. Pretending to be persecuted for taking a popular opinion

Most people in the left-to-center and many moderates, and even non-NRA conservatives are in favor of effective gun control, including Bernie Sanders.

There may be hair-splitting technical differences, over how to do it, But its not exactly a brave unpopular position that merits "I will not be silenced."

It also seems in poor taste to be using this way as a campaign issue.

[hrmjustin]

15. She is not pretending to be persecuted.

[roguevalley]

17. his D- from the NRA is enough for me. If this is all she has then she

is out of luck.

[hrmjustin]

18. Your choice byt i don't care for his record on guns.

[Fearless]

32. You are for assault weapons then?

Or is this the debunked Brady bill vote?

Or do you think he's secretly in the pocket of the NRA?

Do you think he doesn't support universal background checks and closing gun show / ownership transferral loopholes?

What exactly is it that you don't like about his stance on gun control?

[frylock]

22. No problem at all. I think she should run with gun control as her primary platform.

[OKNancy]

6. No more of an "attack" than when Sanders "attacks" on the Iraq vote.

It's called a political campaign.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

14. Fair point...that's what primary debates are for. Here's an idea...let's have more of them!

[Fearless]

33. Except she actually DID vote for the war and continues to defend that decision

He is actually pro-gun control.

[Thinkingabout]

7. As explained, when facts are given it isn't an attack. Attacks on the

Spouses have been opened also.

[wyldwolf]

8. This is what the Sandernista attacks on Clinton have become

[Fred Sanders]

9. What is the problem and reason for the hyperbolic personally made up Politico headline?

Politico, again? I thought we had been over this ground!?

Clinton mentioned GUNS over a dozen times.....and guess how many "Sanders" was mentioned?

The whole article reads like a fictional novellete!

All to create "attacks on Sanders" that do not exist but clearly many yearn for...for some reason!?

[sadoldgirl]

13. Good luck with this shouting about

gun control! I want her to be as strong about this
in the rural West.
I live in Colorado, we have had two mass shootings
in the cities, I detest guns,but I know that we lost
three dems in the legislature due to MINOR gun
control issues.

With HRC's battle cry she will just help the repugs
with their meme: The Dems want to take your guns
away! Good luck with that!

[Broward]

16. I agree it's not an attack, but

it's long past time for Bernie to more aggressively challenge Hillary's corporatist policies just as she's doing to him on gun control. Btw, nice to see that this week Hillary is a "progressive" again.

[jfern]

19. He has the lowest NRA rating, a D-, of any major Vermont politician since at least 1991

And some of those others endorsed Hillary, and she has no problem with their views.

[mhatrw]

20. GUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNS!!!!!

Gun control is one of those issues that comes up every single Democratic primary campaign for the last 50 years. A lot of noise is made about who wants to take away guns the most, then nothing is ever done. It's a safe, predictable non-issue with a safe never changing punching bag and a safe never changing outcome. And every time it makes the news, there is a lot of blood and gore involved. That's why corporate media types love to flog the issue.

[Eric J in MN]

24. But when the issue came up 8 years ago,

...Hillary Clinton argued that she's more electable than Obama because she's pro-guns and he's anti-guns.

[frylock]

21. You won't hear a word about gun control in the GE if Hillary wins the nomination.

[workinclasszero]

23. She should hit Bernie hard on his pro big gun

votes.

He is dead wrong on guns.

[HooptieWagon]

27. You disagree with his AWB vote?

Do you disagree with his positions of closing gun show loophole and more stringent background checks?

[Fearless]

34. Are you really pushing the debunked Brady bill issue again?

[PatrickforO]

28. Well, not the end of the world. Bernie's gonna have to talk about

his stance on gun control. Once he does, he'll be fine.

We've got to remember that Clinton is a very rough and tumble campaigner. Just because Bernie won't and has never run a negative campaign, it doesn't mean that Clinton won't try and eat him for breakfast.

[Kalidurga]

29. If it is easier for her to talk about guns than the real issues fine...

The problem isn't that people have guns it's that they are so willing to use them on other human beings. It's also failing to secure those guns so that minor children can't get to them. But, that's cultural. To talk about guns as if they are the problem rather than the culture of violence we live in is like to blame cars for drunk driving. Yes, it is the car that is the deadly thing, but our tolerance for people drinking and driving is what allows this to happen way too much. That is also cultural. If you want less violence advocate better, cheaper, easier access to education. Take domestic violence more seriously. Take the militarism out of our law enforcement system and make it more about crime prevention, the beat cops out talking to people and understanding their neighborhoods instead of stopping and frisking people for no reason. Step up the anti-bullying campaigns. Make using violence against other people not cool. That will take a lot of work and you can't put those solutions in a sound bite.

[haikugal]

35. I would ad that making abortion and birth control safe and easily available,

and good mental healthcare.

Good post, Thanks!

[arcane1]

36. Notice how she's subtly equating Sanders with the NRA.

That's "palling around with terrorists"-level dishonesty.