Hillary Clinton’s claim that civility can only be restored to national politics when Democrats take control again is “a little bit dangerous,” according to White House counselor Kellyanne Conway.
I don’t like the implications there,” Conway said on Fox News. “It’s one thing to call us deplorable, irredeemable, laugh at people who don’t have all the privileges that she has had with her Ivy League law degree and through her marriage to a much more popular man who actually was a two-term president that she’ll never be.”
“I don’t like that kind of talk, and I avoid it,” she said.
Clinton told CNN that “you cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for,” and said “civility can start again” when Democrats win. Those remarks prompted House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., to ask on Twitter, “Seriously, Hillary?”
“I think it’s not just unfortunate and graceless, but a little bit dangerous, and I would ask her to check that,” Conway said.
Conway also implied that Clinton is not anyone that Democrats are seeking out for advice as they head into the 2018 midterm elections.
“I don’t see all these Democratic candidates banging down Hillary Clinton’s door, asking her to lock arms,” Conway said, adding that Clinton only appears to be getting out as part of a tour with her husband in which she’ll likely make millions of dollars.
“She has to go with her husband to do this 13-city tour, $120 million, that they’re not going to donate to some center on women and girls,” Conway said.
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