It looks like the upcoming New York Primary may be turning out to be too much pressure for either candidate. In a recent CNN piece Bernie Sanders: Hillary Clinton is not 'qualified' to be president:
Bernie Sanders said Wednesday that Hillary Clinton is not "qualified" to be president, a sharp escalation in rhetoric in the Democratic primary.
"Secretary Clinton appears to be getting a little bit nervous," he told a crowd in Philadelphia. "And she has been saying lately that she thinks that I am 'not qualified' to be president. Well, let me, let me just say in response to Secretary Clinton: I don't believe that she is qualified, if she is, through her super PAC, taking tens of millions of dollars in special interest funds. I don't think that you are qualified if you get $15 million from Wall Street through your super PAC."
I did receive two fundraising emails from the Sanders campaign, one right after another, about how outrageous Hillary Clinton’s latest tack was that Bernie was unqualified to be President:
You MUST see what CNN reported last night. It's very disturbing, and you need to know about it right now.
"The Clinton campaign has been watching these Wisconsin results come in, and the delegate race of course is tight there, but the reality is they're running out of patience. So they're going to begin deploying a new strategy, it’s going to be called disqualify him, defeat him and then they can unify the party later."
Disqualify him, defeat him, and unify the party later.
One more time. This is the Clinton campaign's strategy going forward:Disqualify Bernie, defeat our movement, and pick up the pieces later.
We have to get ready for the Clinton campaign's attacks. We're on the path to the nomination, and now they're going to try to block it with super PACs, billionaires, and everything else they've got.
Getting two emails in a row on the same subject really was a first. So I guess that’s why CNN went on with this:
In Philadelphia, Sanders tried to turn that critique back on the former secretary of state.
"I don't think you are qualified if you have voted for the disastrous war in Iraq. I don't think you are qualified if you have supported virtually every disastrous trade agreement which has cost us millions of decent paying jobs," he said to applause. "I don't think you are qualified if you've supported the Panama free trade agreement, something I very strongly opposed and, which as all of you know, has allowed corporations and wealthy all over the world people to avoid paying their taxes to their countries."
Ooooooo, this is going to be nasty...