Clinton Won’t Debate Unless Sanders Changes ‘Tone’
Though former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would like to start focusing on the general election, she’s still facing a vigorous primary challenge from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Sanders wants to debate Clinton before New York’s primary on April 19. When the Clinton campaign’s chief strategist, Joel Benenson, was asked by CNN about this, he started talking about the tone of the Sanders campaign.
“What was notable this weekend wasn’t so much that, but in my mind the Washington Post, with his own campaign talking about how they’re poll-testing more negative attacks on Hillary Clinton,” he said to host Kate Bolduan. Bolduan, not satisfied with that response, said bluntly, “Don’t distract here, Joel. Why wouldn’t you debate?”
“They spent about $4 million running negative ads,” Benenson would say later in their interview. “That doesn’t have anything to do with a debate. Why not debate?” Bolduan asked again. “This is a man who said he’d never run a negative ad ever,” Benenson said. “He’s now running them; they’re now planning to run more. Let’s see the tone of the campaign he wants to run before we get to any other questions.”
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