With last night’s truly historic win in the New Hampshire primary by Bernie Sanders, the Hillary Clinton campaign now finds itself in the position of attempting to become the first Democrat since Adlai Stevenson to lose the New Hampshire primary by over twenty percentage points and be the nominee. Clinton’s incrementalism, appeals to her resume, being the most well funded, most endorsed Democratic candidate in history has done her no good as yet another fifty point lead in the polls just months ago has again evaporated, leading this time to a large defeat. To make matters worse, her opponent who eschews the traditional method of fundraising that is taking money for the wealthiest one percent, took crowdfunding the Presidency to a new level by holding a one minute fundraiser and broke the internet.
There is one more mode of attack that the Clinton camp and the Establishment can take. Single payer health care and free college tuition at public universities, how dare he! They are going to attack that crazy “socialist” and his utopian pipe dreams by using the old Reagan tactic of asking how he’s going to pay for it.
The Clinton camp and its surrogates have tipped their hand. From a report by CNN last evening:
Hillary Clinton's supporters on Capitol Hill are bracing for a win by Bernie Sanders in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday, but warn the Vermont senator will face increased scrutiny in the next phase of the campaign.
"I think when someone starts to look into Bernie Sanders' record, sure, things change. I think that hasn't happened," Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, a Clinton backer, told CNN. "Look at the seven taxes he would raise to do single payer (health coverage). There are a lot of technical things that show a person's record that just haven't come out yet and I think later on there is room for that."
See that “He’s gonna raise your TAXES!!!
Really?
A man who doesn’t look like, sound like, or act like an Establishment politician, a man who isn’t for sale obviously has been standing up for regular people for years and years. People are going to use google and see that he’s been the lone voice arguing against the system of corruption which allows the rich and powerful to shift the tax burden to the struggling middle and working classes. They’ll find this from 2011, this post from 2015, and this post detailing even more corporate tax dodgers.
Then people are going to google each and every company listed in the above video with the name of Bernie Sanders’ primary opponent and they’ll find details about the Clinton’s complex financial ties or even worse. Here’s another example of what they’ll find all the top ten tax dodgers have donated to Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton’s camp thinks they’ll have Bernie checkmated soon.
Check and mate.