Hillary Clinton snapped at a protester from the Greenpeace environmental group. She linked Democratic rival Bernie Sanders and conservative tea party Republicans.
Hillary Clinton snapped at a protester from the Greenpeace environmental group. She linked Democratic rival Bernie Sanders and conservative tea party Republicans. And she bristled with anger when nearly two dozen Sanders supporters marched out of an event near her home outside New York City, shouting “if she wins, we lose”.
“They don’t want to listen to anyone else,” she shot back. “We actually have to do something. Not just complain about what is happening.”
After a year of campaigning, months of debates and 35 primary elections, Mr Sanders is finally getting under Ms Clinton’s skin in the Democratic presidential race.
Ms Clinton has spent weeks largely ignoring Mr Sanders and trying to focus on Republican front-runner Donald Trump. Now, after several primary losses and with a tough fight in New York on the horizon later this month, Ms Clinton is showing flashes of frustration with the Vermont senator — irritation that could undermine her efforts to unite the party around her candidacy.
According to Democrats close to Hillary and former President Bill Clinton, both are frustrated by Mr Sanders’ ability to cast himself as above politics-as-usual even while firing off what they consider to be misleading attacks. The Clintons are even more annoyed that Mr Sanders’ approach seems to be rallying — and keeping — young voters by his side.
While Hillary Clinton’s team contends her lock on the nomination is “nearly insurmountable”, the campaign frequently grumbles that Mr Sanders hasn’t fa-ced the same level of scr-utiny as Ms Clinton.
