Secretary Clinton’s latest inartful smear accuses Senator Sanders of supporting the Minutemen vigilantes’ efforts to "hunt down immigrants.”
CLINTON: And as I said earlier, in 2006, Senator Sanders supported indefinite detention for people facing deportation...
SANDERS: It's...
CLINTON: ...and stood with the Minutemen vigilantes in their ridiculous, absurd efforts to, quote, "hunt down immigrants.”
So look, I think the goal here is to elect a Democratic Senate, elect a Democratic president and get to work immediately to get comprehensive immigration reform.
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RAMOS: Did you support the Minutemen, Senator? Did you support the Minutemen?
SANDERS: I'm sorry?
RAMOS: Did you support the Minutemen, as Secretary Clinton has said?
SANDERS: Of course not. There was a piece of legislation supported by dozens and dozens of members of the House which codified existing legislation.
What the secretary is doing tonight and has done very often is take large pieces of legislation and take pieces out of it.
No, I did not oppose the bailout or the support of the automobile industry. No, I do not support vigilantes, and that is a horrific statement, an unfair statement to make.
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I will stand (inaudible) of my career, political career fighting for workers, fighting for the poorest people in this country. Madame Secretary, I will match my record against yours any day of the week.
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Transcript: The Post-Univision Democratic debate
Once again Secretary Clinton’s inflammatory and outlandish claim about is making about Senator Sanders calls her her honesty into question more than it impunes Bernie’s stance on immigration. This wasn’t merely shading the truth this was Hillary spray painting over the truth in day glow orange.
UPDATE: It looks like Chris Cillizza at the Washington Post agrees that this is a bizarre mischaracterization of Bernie’s record by Hillary.
This Hillary Clinton attack on Bernie Sanders makes no sense
By Chris Cillizza
I get it. I just don't think it will work. Sanders is a liberal's liberal. Attacking him as something short of that only hardens his support and makes Clinton look like she is all politics, all the time, and the facts be damned.
www.washingtonpost.com/...