Hillary Clinton wrong that no negative ads have hit Bernie Sanders

[NWCorona]

Hillary Clinton, who said this week she "will be the party’s nominee," emphasized on Meet the Press that she’s already won more votes than rival Bernie Sanders and she’ll also be the better prepared candidate for the fall.

When Chuck Todd pointed out that Sanders fares better than Clinton in head-to-head matchups against presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, Clinton suggested Sanders hasn’t been vetted as thoroughly as she’s been.

"Let me say that I don't think he's had a single negative ad ever run against him. And that's fine. But we know what we're going into, and we understand what it's going to take to win in the fall," she said. "And finally, I would say that, you know, polls this far out mean nothing."

Clinton has a point that compared with her, Sanders hasn’t really felt the burn of negative ad blitzes from Republican groups. But her claim that he hasn’t had "a single ad ever run against him" is an exaggeration.

Dem-on-Dem negative campaigning

Many of the attacks we found on Sanders in the Political TV Ad Archive actually come from other Democrats, including by Clinton supporters.

The Clinton campaign itself sent a President's Day-themed attack ad against Sanders through text messages, BuzzFeed reported. After audio of Sanders saying it would be a good idea if President Barack Obama "faced primary opposition" in 2012, the text reads, "Hillary is the only one in this race who’ll fight for the progress we’ve made under Pres. Obama.""


http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/may/22/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-wrong-negative-ads-bernie-sanders/

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1. That's weak tea. The examples given are online ads. That in no way has the same effect as televised

ads, where people see the ads whether they want to or not.

[NWCorona]

2. Don't blame me because Hillary wasn't specific

[Metric System]

3. She specifically said "I don't think..."

[NWCorona]

4. She said that while her own campaign has issued attacks per the article

I don't take anything Hillary says at face value.

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5. Not to make too fine a point but Hillary is wrong on almost EVERYTHING.

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6. Lying is Hillary Clinton's default setting.

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7. The obvious point was that Sanders has yet to be subject to the GOP smear machine

Not that MoM's superpac ran a handful of ads a year ago that no one remembers.

[NWCorona]

8. The fact of the matter is Hillary hasn't faced GOP attack ads either as she failed to reach the GE

Last time.

[Tarc]

9. We're not talking about last time, sport

The point of all this is to undercut the absurd whining from Camp Sanders about how he "polls better against Trump". Sanders [polls better because the Republicans haven't attacked him directly.

[NWCorona]

10. And you just proved my point. Thanks!

[Tarc]

11. You're quite welcome. This is all largely academic anyways

as Sanders will not be the Democratic nominee.

[NWCorona]

12. We will find out soon enough.

[Tarc]

13. 3,033,824 votes, 272 pledged delegates

Good luck.

[NWCorona]

14. And the same to you!