Hillary Rodham Clinton’s problem with younger voters just got worse, thanks to her glib husband, former President Bill Clinton.
The reason: Bubba said they have themselves to blame for stagnant wages and a miserable future the includes little hope of getting to do what they want to do. Why? They didn’t help Democrats and President Obama keep control of the House and Senate in the 2010 elections.
Speaking in Harrisburg, Pa., Clinton said the economy isn’t great, but this time didn’t blame President Obama.
“The reason that there’s so much anxiety, intensity, anger, blame in this election is that 80 percent of the American people have not gotten a pay raise since the crash eight years ago, after inflation. And a lot of young people feel like they’ve played by the rules, went to school, they’re gonna graduate with debt they can’t repay, or they’ve already graduated with debt they can’t repay, and they may not ever get to do what they really wanted to do with their lives,” Clinton said in a report by Huffington Post’s Michael McAuliffe.
Then he added the punch line: “If all the young people who claim to be disillusioned now had voted in 2010, we wouldn’t have lost the Congress, and we’d probably have our incomes back.”
McAuliffe added in a side note, “Many millennials were probably too young to vote in 2010.”
Clinton has often stumbled on the campaign trail, usually in comments seen as critical of Obama. Now he’s added millennials to that mix.
Our millennial-focused sister site Red Alert Politics posted an editorial on Clinton’s comments that included some of the polling on Hillary Clinton’s woes with kids.
For the Clintons, attacking millennials has become a trend, with surrogate after surrogate slamming “Bernie bros” and young women who support Sanders. Hillary has gone off-script as well, condescendingly saying “I feel sorry” for Sanders supporters earlier this month.
That’s one reason why 67 percent of millennials disapprove of Clinton’s candidacy. Bill and Hillary believe she is entitled to their support, and Hillary needs millennials to turn our for Democrats to maintain the Obama coalition and win in November. Yet, one poll showed that one-in-three millennial Democrats want Clinton to drop out of the race altogether, and polls and videos show Sanders supporters have no loyalty to Clinton.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
