Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said millennials would vote for Hillary Clinton if they knew anything about her, but said they don’t know much.
“They don’t know her. They don’t,” Waters said on MSNBC.
The longtime Democratic politician said if young voters really knew Clinton and herself, they “would have been all over us” instead of Sen. Bernie Sanders.
“If Maxine Waters had said something about revolution or Hillary Clinton had talked about starting a revolution, do you know they would have been all over us?” she asked. She also said that if not for the lack of knowledge among some millennials, “you could not have said some of the things that were being said in that primary by Bernie Sanders.”
“They didn’t even know the difference between a socialist and a Democrat is and it didn’t really bother them that much,” Waters added. Former Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who resigned after evidence suggested party officials favored Clinton over Sanders in the primary, famously refused to make the same distinction on national television.
Poll numbers show that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is widely disliked by millennials, but their support for third-party candidates like Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party challenger Jill Stein has been an obstacle for Clinton.
