Hillary Clinton texts during GOP debate: ‘10 candidates. 0 new ideas.’

Dylan Stableford
·Senior Writer
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Clinton speaks at the Democratic National Committee’s Women’s Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C., last week. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Hillary Clinton was as unimpressed by the latest Republican debate as she was by the Benghazi hearings.

Before Wednesday’s GOP event in Boulder, Colo., the Clinton campaign solicited cellphone numbers from supporters who wanted to receive “live texts from Hillary” during the debate, and the Democratic frontrunner sent several blasting the Republican field.


“Seems to me: 10 candidates. 0 new ideas,” Clinton wrote in one text, signing it with her first initial, “—H.”

After Ben Carson criticized Medicare as an example of government overreach, Clinton slammed the retired neurosurgeon.

“For a surgeon, Ben Carson has a pretty poor diagnosis,” she wrote. “We need to build on the progress we’ve made on health care.”

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Three of the text messages Clinton sent to supporters during Wednesday’s GOP debate.

Other texts from Clinton were takedowns of the GOP on a number of issues, including the rising costs of college tuition, LGBT discrimination and equal pay for women:

The hardest part about college shouldn’t be paying for it. We need real plans to make college affordable & available for everyone. -H

Still haven’t heard a single idea to close the wage gap & make sure women are paid equally. -H

Discrimination against the LGBT community is not a myth. It’s a reality for too many Americans and it’s wrong. -H


On Twitter, Clinton’s campaign continued its ideological assault.


One of her final tweets during the debate included a GIF of a bored-looking Clinton taken from last week’s select committee hearing on Benghazi.


Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who said Clinton was “exposed as a liar” during the hearings, felt the tweet was in poor taste.

“I found it outrageous that she used video from the Benghazi hearing — a hearing about the loss of four American lives — to put up something trivial about her brushing something off her shoulder,” Rubio said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Thursday, “That was a serious hearing about a serious issue.”