Wolfson Reacts to NYT Editorial
Jul 31, 2020100.5K Shares1.3M Views
On MSNBC this morning, Sen. Hillary Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson blasted this scathing editorialin the New York Times that calls for Clinton to get out of the race. "It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to acknowledge that the negativity, for which she is mostly responsible, does nothing but harm to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election," the editorial reads.
"That description of the race is not one that I’m familiar with having lived it," Wolfson said.
“„Unable once again to score a knockout, Sen. Barack Obama is likely to make his new negative tone even more negative — with a sharp eye on trying to end the Democratic presidential nomination fight after the May 6 primaries in Indiana and North Carolina.
Weisman goes on:
“„…the candidate who rocketed to stardom as the embodiment of a new kind of politics — hopeful, positive and inspiring — saw his image tarnished in the bruising fight for Pennsylvania. Provoked by Clinton’s repeated references to his remarks about the state’s voters and her charges that he is an ‘elitist,’ Obama struck back in the closing days of the campaign.
The Times editorial pulls no punches going after Clinton:
“„It is getting to be time for the superdelegates to do what the Democrats had in mind when they created superdelegates: settle a bloody race that cannot be won at the ballot box. Mrs. Clinton once had a big lead among the party elders, but has been steadily losing it, in large part because of her negative campaign. If she is ever to have a hope of persuading these most loyal of Democrats to come back to her side, let alone win over the larger body of voters, she has to call off the dogs.
The irony, of course, is that on Jan. 25 this same New York Times editorial board "strongly" recommendedits readers back Clinton. How quickly things change…
Rhyley Carney
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