Hillary Clinton has found a new attack dog. Speaking at a Cleveland event, former first daughter Chelsea Clinton unloaded on her mother’s sole Democratic rival.
“We are not electing a king, we are electing a president,” Chelsea said, unloading on Sanders and suggesting that the Democratic socialist does not understand how the presidency works.
“We need someone who understands what they have to do in the job [as president] but also in partnership with congress, governors and mayors.”
“My mother understands how the government works.”
Chelsea Clinton attacked Sanders for his criminal justice reform initiative. As the Independent reports:
Chelsea Clinton said Senator Bernie Sanders’ proposal to end mass incarceration in the US is “worrying” and insinuated that her mother’s rival does not understand what is “possible” to achieve in Government. Speaking to a packed town hall in Cleveland, Ohio, Chelsea Clinton took the opportunity to denounce Senator Sanders’ proposed criminal justice reforms when she was asked about her mother’s “vagaries” towards African American policy. She replied that Senator Sanders advocated the end of mass incarceration, aiming for the US to no longer be the country with the highest number of people in jail by the end of his first term in 2020 – but his plan “worried” her. The US currently has 2.2 million people behind bars, 600,000 more people than China. Chelsea Clinton said the goal was not achievable, however, as the majority of inmates are held at state, not federal, prisons.
