As much as Hillary Clinton is trying to shift into a general election posture, she’s still mired in the primary “quicksanders.”
Worse for her, the contests this week aren’t likely to be enough to pull herself out.
Clinton has fallen back to attacking her primary opponent, Bernie Sanders, again, just at the time she wants to be using general election language and focusing on Donald Trump.
Today, she lashed out at Sanders before Kentucky union members, claiming he supposedly didn’t support the auto bailout (he actually did).
“I want us to do more advanced manufacturing,” Clinton told an audience at the Union of Carpenters and Millwrights Training Center in Louisville.
“I saw some UAW members here and I know that here in the plants in Louisville and Kentucky and elsewhere that we have the most sophisticated, incredibly impressive people putting together the automobiles that we’re driving around in, the trucks that are being sold.
“I want more of those jobs in this country,” she said. “I want to do everything I can to make sure we keep auto jobs here.
“And I’ll tell you what: there is a big difference in this primary campaign between me and my opponent, Bernie Sanders.
“I voted to bail out the auto industry and he voted against it! Because I wanted to save those millions of jobs!” she yelled.
“And I guess if you were to evaluate our positions, I think I came out on the better side of that,” Clinton said.
FactCheck.org reports Clinton used the same line of attack in a debate and found it was not true.
It’s true that Sanders voted to provide $15 billion to help rescue the auto industry. Sanders voted on Dec. 11, 2008, to bring the auto bailout bill to the floor for a final vote. But the motion failed to receive the 60 votes necessary, and the bill died.
It was because of that vote that we wrote Clinton stretched the facts in the debate when she said that Sanders “was against the auto bailout.”
Clinton faces Sanders in Kentucky and Oregon on Tuesday.
The Clinton campaign acknowledged its predicament in an email Saturday, calling it “nuts.”
“Here’s the deal: Bernie’s not opening field offices in Ohio because he’s only focused on the primary. Donald Trump isn’t opening field offices in California because he’s only focused on the general. We’re the only ones running two races, which means we need this team to step up twice as much,” Director of State and Political Engagement Marlon Marshall wrote to supporters.
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