Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton slammed rival Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday morning for being ignorant of how banking law works, despite promising voters that he’d work to break up the big banks.
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In an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Clinton pointed to a Friday interview Sanders conducted with the New York Post as proof that may not be able to deliver the promises he makes on the campaign trail.
“I think the interview raised a lot of really serious questions,” Clinton said. “The core of his campaign has been, break up the banks, and it didn’t seem in reading his answers that he understood exactly how that would work under Dodd-Frank, exactly who would be responsible, what the criteria were.”
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“That means you can’t really help people if you don’t know how to do what you are campaigning on saying you want to do,” Clinton added.
In the Friday interview, Sanders was asked for specifics about how he was going to “break up” big banks, whether the executive branch had that for authority, or how he obtain that power as president if he lacked it. Sanders’ responses pivoted back to broad talking points that he uses on the campaign trail.
Clinton suggested that Sanders “hadn’t done his homework” in spite of “talking for more than a year about doing things that he obviously hadn’t really studied or understood.”
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“That does raise a lot of questions, what it really goes to is for voters to ask themselves can he deliver on what he’s talking about, can he really help people, can he help our economy, can he keep our country strong,” Clinton added. “I think I’m by far the better choice.”
Despite her misgivings, Sanders easily won the Wisconsin primary Tuesday night, and defeated Clinton by about 13 points.
