Bernie Sanders held his ground Thursday morning in an increasingly bitter battle with presidential rival Hillary Clinton, saying “this campaign will fight back” in the face of attempts by the former secretary of state to “disqualify” him.
The latest skirmish began Wednesday morning, when Clinton was asked point-blank by “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough whether Sanders was ready for the Oval Office. As Politico notes, “While Clinton did not specifically call Sanders unqualified…[she] declined three times to say whether her opponent had the proper pedigree.”
The Washington Post, among other publications, wrote about the exchange under the headline, “Clinton questions whether Sanders is qualified to be president.”
Meanwhile, CNN reported Wednesday that with the campaign now focused like a laser on New York’s April 19 primary, Clinton’s new strategy with regard to Sanders is: “Disqualify him, defeat him, and unify the party later.”
On Wednesday night, Sanders set off a firestorm when he responded in remarks at Temple University: “She has been saying lately that she thinks I am quote, unquote ‘not qualified’ to be president. I don’t believe that she is qualified … if she is, through her super PAC, taking tens of millions of dollars in special interests funds.”
“I don’t think that you are ‘qualified’ if you get $15 million from Wall Street through your super PAC,” he said. “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.”
This was Sanders on Wednesday evening:
Despite the media frenzy generated by the remarks, Sanders did not back away from his argument during a Thursday morning press conference in Philadelphia.
“If you want to question my qualifications,” Sanders said, flanked by labor leaders at the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO’s annual convention,
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