A spokesperson for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign suggested on Tuesday that Sen. Bernie Sanders’ attempt to get Clinton to release her Wall Street speech transcripts made little or no difference to New York voters.
“In the course of the New York primary campaign, these suggestions and insinuations didn’t sit well with these voters. I think they rejected those attacks and insinuations last night,” Clinton’s national press secretary Brian Fallon said on CNN’s “New Day.”
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Sanders has repeatedly gone after the lack of transparency surrounding Clinton’s relationship with Wall Street. According to the Washington Post, the Vermont senator’s annual income in 2014 was less than what Clinton earned in one hour when she delivered a speech to General Electric.
As recently as last Thursday’s Democratic debate in Brooklyn, N.Y., Clinton stumbled as she attempted to explain her reasoning for not making public her transcripts. The former first lady has often said she would release them only when other 2016 contenders agree to release their own transcripts from speeches they delivered to Wall Street.
“In a general election, if Donald Trump is going to be the nominee of the Republican Party, he has given paid speeches, commanding speaking fees in excess of $400,000,” Fallon said Tuesday.
“If this is going to be the new normal, where candidates on both sides of the aisle are asked to release transcripts and everyone participates in it, Hillary Clinton will be happy to join in on that,” he added.
Clinton carried close to 60 percent of the vote in New York’s Democratic primary Tuesday night, and finished 15 percentage points ahead of Sanders.
“Looking forward, we know who the Democratic nominee is going to be, I think. It’s going to be Hillary Clinton,” Fallon said. “There are contests still to play out. Sen. Sanders may even win some states, but even if he won every state left by 15 points he still wouldn’t catch Hillary Clinton in the popular vote or the pledged delegate total.”
