Clinton Adjusts Pitch: I Can Be a Sanders, Just Better
Hillary Clinton wants you to know she’s a more realistic, more savvy version of Bernie Sanders.
She, too, wants to close corporate loopholes, make college and health care more affordable and get tough on Wall Street. Just as Sanders does, except she’d proceed more carefully and practically.
Same with Social Security, and income inequality. Me, too, she said. Just better.
Clinton’s challenge, though, was clear during Thursday’s debate. Sanders argues with a passion that appeals to voters disgusted with Washington inertia. Clinton reasons with fact-laced talking points and anecdotes about how things work. Sanders leans into the podium, his right index finger pointing at the viewer as he promises a radical new way of doing business. Clinton is more lawyerly, more measured, even, arguably, more presidential.
She spent much of the debate, the first since Sanders and his insurgent army crushed her in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, intent on providing a distinctive dash of reality. She tried to convince voters fed up with politics as usual that the difference between Sanders and her is largely one of temperament and resume. (Read more from “Clinton Adjusts Pitch: I Can Be a Sanders, Just Better” HERE)
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