A Los Angeles Times column has been updated this week to note that it had seriously underestimated Hillary Clinton’s personal wealth.
“An earlier version of this column said that Hillary Rodham Clinton makes five times the average American’s annual income. She makes that amount per speech,” the editor’s note reads.
The correction ran in a column titled “GOP’s Trump problem will fade, but Democrats’ Bernie Sanders troubles are just beginning,” authored by National Review’s Jonah Goldberg. The corrected part of the story said that Clinton’s role as an “elite technocrat” may be helping her raise money, but isn’t helping her win populist votes.
“Thanks to her husband, she still has goodwill among African-Americans,” the story reads now. “But she lacks the charisma, passion or personal story to excite either the black Left or the white Left. The woman who left the White House ‘dead broke’ makes five times the average American’s annual income per speech.”
The article, which was published Monday, focuses on Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and his many unpleasant run-ins with “Black Lives Matters” activists. As recently as last week, the Vermont senator surrendered his microphone at a campaign rally to a group of these protesters.
For Goldberg, there is “spectacle on the left” that is as “significant” and “fascinating” as former reality TV star Donald Trump’s rise on the right.
“Sanders, the lifelong independent socialist running for the Democratic nomination, has been gathering historic crowds, much larger than anything Hillary Rodham Clinton or Trump have been able to manage. Saturday’s rally drew 15,000 people,” he wrote. “The following night in Portland, Ore., 28,000 reportedly attended. The best Clinton has done — in her adopted home state of New York, at her kickoff event no less — was 5,500.”
The Clinton campaign is clearly worried, he added.
“Her poll numbers have been plummeting as Sanders’ have been surging. The campaign moved up its ad buys from November to this month. She’s been tacking ever further left,” he wrote.
Though the Republican Party appears to have its hands full dealing with the ascendency of Trump, the problems for the Democratic Party seem much more serious and “durable.”
“Sanders has charm, but the Jewish socialist transplant from Brooklyn has spent his political life in a state that has only 7,500 blacks. He lacks the vocabulary to appeal beyond the white Left. Meanwhile, the black Left, an indispensable voting bloc, has no standard-bearer in the primaries and is clearly angry about it,” Goldberg wrote.
