The campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton, signaling greater frustration with able foe Sen. Bernie Sanders, rolled out a new attack Saturday, charging her rival of launching “negative attacks,” and she demanded a debate to settle the score.
Clinton, no stranger to political gamesmanship, accused Sanders of playing games in New York, her latest lash-out at the senator.
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Just issued from her press secretary Brian Fallon:
The Sanders campaign needs to stop with the games.
Over the course of the last week, we have offered three specific dates for a debate in New York, all of which the Sanders campaign rejected. We offered Monday, April 4 at 7:30 pm. We were told that the Sanders campaign rejected this date because they wanted the debate to be held after the Wisconsin primary and would make themselves available on any date between Wisconsin and New York. We then offered the night of April 14th and that was rejected by Sanders. While we preferred to do an evening debate on the 14th, we then agreed to a debate on Good Morning America on April 15, understanding that the Sanders campaign had already agreed to this forum. That, too, was rejected.
Both offers for the night of April 14 and the morning of April 15 still remain. The Sanders campaign needs to stop using the New York primary as a playground for political games and negative attacks against Hillary Clinton. The voters of New York deserve better. Senator Sanders and his team should stop the delays and accept a debate on April 14 or the morning of April 15th.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
