Bernie Sanders is no longer “sick and tired” of Hillary Clinton’s “damn emails.”
At a Democratic presidential debate last month, Sanders famously said the he wanted to move on from one of the Hillary Clinton scandals that had been plaguing Clinton’s campaign. But in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, he’s calling for the investigation to continue.
“You get 12 seconds to say these things,” Sanders tells the Wall Street Journal. “There’s an investigation going on right now. I did not say, ‘End the investigation.’ That’s silly.…Let the investigation proceed unimpeded.”
The Journal points to the email moment in the debate as a moment Sanders started slipping:
In the Democratic debate last month, Mr. Sanders said voters were “sick and tired” of the focus on Mrs. Clinton’s “damn emails.” Afterward, many Democrats and political analysts said that he had appeared to dismiss her use of a private email account and server in her four years as secretary of state.
Mr. Sanders rejected that assessment on Wednesday. If her email practices foiled public-records requests or compromised classified information, those are “valid questions,” Mr. Sanders said.
Mr. Sanders’s pointed comments mark a turning point in what has been a polite Democratic contest. When he entered the race in the spring, Mr. Sanders barely mentioned Mrs. Clinton by name. When he did, it was merely to spell out plain-vanilla differences over policy.
Mr. Sanders rejected that assessment on Wednesday. If her email practices foiled public-records requests or compromised classified information, those are “valid questions,” Mr. Sanders said.
Mr. Sanders’s pointed comments mark a turning point in what has been a polite Democratic contest. When he entered the race in the spring, Mr. Sanders barely mentioned Mrs. Clinton by name. When he did, it was merely to spell out plain-vanilla differences over policy.
Which explains why Sanders now wants those damn emails investigated.
