Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has run a campaign that is far nastier and mean than anyone in the Democratic Party expected, according to the party’s former chairman.
“They’ve run what turned out to be a much nastier campaign than I thought most of us would,” former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean said Tuesday in an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell.
Dean, who acts now as a surrogate for Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, highlighted a segment aired on MSNBC Tuesday afternoon that characterized his party’s primary as ugly and in the mud.
“I thought your remarks in the earlier segment about how nasty it really was under the surface was pretty bad,” Dean told Mitchell.
He referred to when he ran in the 2008 Democratic primary.
“I had to deal with a bunch of older women who supported [Barack Obama] at the end over Hillary … that’s going to happen,” he added, referring to her fight against the then-Illinois senator. “They’re going be some people who do that. Hopefully, it’s going to be mostly headline grabbers and not really substantial voters and I don’t think it will be,” Dean said
“I believe that all but the hardest-core 10 percent of Bernie Sanders voters will end up voting for Hillary because it’s the right thing to do for the country and its the right thing for them to do to advance their own agenda as well. The truth is, most revolutions in this country are incremental and they don’t happen overnight — that’s what the penalty of democracy is, you don’t get your changes overnight,” he added.
