In an interview for TIME's new cover story, Bernie Sanders dismissed negative campaigning

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In an interview for TIME's new cover story, Bernie Sanders dismissed negative campaigning

“That’s what negative campaigning is about,” Sanders tells TIME in an interview for this week’s cover story, responding personally to an attack against him by a Hillary Clinton-affiliated super PAC, Correct the Record.

Clinton’s surrogates finally bared their teeth this week and attacked Sanders after months of watching him surge in the polls, linking Sanders in opposition research sent to a reporter with the socialist authoritarian president, Hugo Chavez. The research pointed to a program Sanders negotiated to buy discounted Venezuelan heating oil for low-income Vermonters; Sanders pointed out to TIME that Vermont was the sixth state to do so.

As Sanders surges in the presidential race and overtakes Clinton in New Hampshire and Iowa, he is beginning to draw fire from the frontrunner’s surrogates. Rep. Joaquin Castro, a Clinton supporter, criticized Sanders for not reaching out to the Hispanic caucus in Congress. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo compare Sanders unfavorably to Clinton, and Sen. Claire McCaskill in June suggested Sanders is too liberal to be elected. Clinton has complimented Sanders obliquely, saying he’s done a good job campaigning, but she has not mentioned his name on the trail.

Brock’s super PAC, Correct the Record, is one of the organizations that can spend unlimited sums of money this election cycle thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United. Sanders, meantime, vows to overturn the decision with a constitutional amendment, and he does not have a super PAC.

“I believe in raising minimum wage nationally to $15 an hour and I don’t believe that’s her positions,” Sanders continues. “I believe we have got to kill this Trans Pacific Partnership, that is not her position. I believe we have got to stop the Keystone Pipeline, she has not made a position on that. I voted against the USA Patriot Act she voted for it.”

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[djean111]

1. Bernie, didn't you know that even daring to disagree with Hillary on any issue at all is now

considered dirty politics, smearing, bashing, hating, and, oh, let's throw in misogynistic?

[roguevalley]

5. cuomo, mackaskill and some guy I never heard of. You can tell the caliber of a person

by their enemies. What a paltry idiotic trio of laughable clowns. GO, BERNIE!

What they are going to do by attacking him is they are going to not only show they are more republican than dem by denigrating Bernie's democratic policies but they will attack the core of being a democrat, liberalism. They will harm themselves and their candidate more than they will harm Bernie because it will piss people off. sad asses

[peacebird]

2. Bernie, keeping it classy and refusing to fling poo back! Awesome!

Shows how depserate the Hillary camp is, resorting to this type smear.

[LWolf]

3. His determination

to stick to issues is frustrating to those trying to defeat him, for certain.

[hedda_foil]

4. The new TIME cover photo and story is BERNIE!

I checked first to make sure it wasn't just a sidebar on him in a Clinton issue. And from what I've seen, it seems to be positive!