Twitter Exposes Clinton’s Record With #WhichHillary
CAMPAIGNING IN THE age of social media means that sometimes you’ll be two days away from the South Carolina presidential primary—a race you’re expected to win handily—and suddenly a hashtag will start trending on Twitter that calls into question every inconsistency of your decades-long career in politics.
That was the case for Hillary Clinton Thursday morning when the hashtag #WhichHillary started trending, eliciting more than 88,000 tweets by 1 pm ET. The hashtag, which has been used intermittently on social media to point out times that Clinton has supposedly flip-flopped on issues, gained steam after an altercation between Clinton and Black Lives Matter activist Ashley Williams at a private fundraiser in South Carolina Wednesday.
Williams stood beside Clinton, holding a sign that included the hashtag and a quote: “We have to bring them to heel.” The quote refers to a speech Clinton gave as First Lady in 1994, in which she referred to gang members as “super-predators.”
“I’m not a super-predator, Hillary Clinton,” Williams said, before being escorted out of the event. Video of the moment (posted below) soon went viral, as did the hashtag itself.
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