Hillary Clinton believes her campaign would have a greater appeal to Bernie Sanders’ supporters than Republican front-runner Donald Trump’s.
Clinton vowed if she wins the nomination, her team will go after Sanders’ supporters in a “very aggressive” manner.
The Democratic front-runner attacked Trump’s claim that he has more in common with independent and Democratic backers of Sanders, explaining why she would be the likely next choice for them.
“If you have kind of a reckless, loose, dangerous view of foreign policy, I don’t think that’s very appealing so I’m going to be very aggressive in the reaching out to Sen. Sanders’ supporters,” Clinton told Jake Tapper.
Tapper asked Clinton if the two anti-establishment candidates, Sanders and Trump, did not share foreign policy views and a mutual desire to take out big money from politics. Clinton skipped to other issues Trump does not see eye to eye with progressive voters on, including climate change, equal pay and raising the minimum wage.
“But we [Sanders] have so much more in common and we have far more in common than they do with Donald Trump or any Republican and we’re gonna work together. I really respect the important point of getting money out of politics,” Clinton said.
Clinton also said that she withdrew from the 2008 Democratic presidential race before the convention despite being closer to Barack Obama than Sanders is to her, hinting the Vermont senator should back down before July.
“There comes a time when you have to look at the reality. In fact, in ’08 I was much closer in both the popular vote and pledged delegates to Sen. Obama than is the case right now, but eventually I just decided that I had to withdraw and support Sen. Obama because the goal was to make sure we had a Democrat in the White House,” Clinton concluded.
