Clinton’s Flash of Anger Highlights Toll of Sanders’ Relentless Critique
April 4, 2016 — 5:00 AM EDT
Hillary Clinton is becoming increasingly irritated by Bernie Sanders’ pointed attacks that portray her as a tool of special interests, people close to her say, leading her to sharpen her approach to the primary at a time when she hoped to get a head start on the general election.
Clinton takes Sanders’ recent attacks personally, her aides say, and is fed up with fending them off when she’d rather be laying out her policy positions or leveling critiques of Republican front-runner Donald Trump. They also worry that Sanders’ jabs seem aimed at inflaming his supporters against her—possibly to a point where they won’t support her in November.
The dynamic came to a boil last week when the typically measured Clinton lashed out at a Greenpeace activist asking about her campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry. “I am so sick. I am so sick of the Sanders campaign lying about me. I'm sick of it,” she said, jabbing her finger at the young woman who approached her as she shook hands along a rope line at an event in New York. A video of the encounter spread on the Internet, getting more than 2 million hits in 72 hours just on YouTube.
For Sanders, whose chances for getting the party nomination depend upon a string of improbable but not impossible events, attacking Clinton draws media attention as well as donations from a fervent core of supporters who are keeping his campaign afloat. His attacks have also helped him close in on the front-runner, including in Wisconsin, where voters will cast ballots in a primary on Tuesday. Following on his sweep of three western-state caucuses a little more than a week ago, Sanders is deadlocked with Clinton in polls there.
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