Liberal New York Times columnist Charles Blow’s says in his latest op-ed that as the race for the Democratic presidential nomination has tightened, front-runner Hillary Clinton’s campaign “seems increasingly desperate and reckless.”
Blow said Clinton is doing damage to herself as she has taken on a more aggressive tone against her nearest rival Bernie Sanders.
“[I]nstead of Clinton finding a way to express that her plans are more tangible than Sanders’, and her chances in the general election are stronger than his, she and her campaign have made some incredulous inferences about Sanders’ honor,” Blow wrote. “The swipes at him as being soft on the gun industry as some way of cozying up to it, or of being anti-Obama because he wanted Obama to be stronger in pursuing a liberal agenda, or that he wants to scrap Obamacare, simply do not connect. Sanders may be a dreamer, but he’s not dishonorable. Trying to sully him in this way only sullies her.”
As some recent polls showed Sanders leading in early primary states Iowa and New Hampshire, Clinton and her team have started attacking Sanders as ill-prepared for the White House.
Former President Bill Clinton admitted over the weekend that Sanders’ campaign style is in some ways connecting more easily with voters than those of his wife.
“This other guy’s madder than she is,” Bill Clinton said in Las Vegas. “And that feels authentic. And besides, his slogans are easier to say.”
