Podesta: Sanders ‘Hasn’t Been Subjected’ to the Scrutiny Like Hillary

MITCHELL: “You have a new ad which deals with her vaunted electability against Republicans, as a stronger candidate in a general election. But the data from our polls, the numbers show that he outdoes her against many of these Republicans.”
PODESTA: “Well, look, what that ad talks about is the stakes that are — what we have at stake in this election, whether we’re going to turn back the progress that we’ve made over the last seven years, whether we’re going to go back to economics that don’t work for working people, and I think Hillary Clinton is the best person to take the fight to the Republicans. She’s been doing it all year. She’s had the kitchen sink thrown back at her, but she still leads Donald Trump in virtually every poll. She leads the other Republicans. And I think if you look at what — the match-ups with Senator Sanders, he just hasn’t been subjected to that kind of scrutiny. And if you think about where the Republicans are, you have hedge fund billionaires running advertising against her, you have Kevin McCarthy admitting that the whole Republican machinery of the House has been built to tear her numbers down. He just hasn’t had that kind of scrutiny. So your own political analysts described those match-ups for 300 days from now as perhaps fool’s gold. Until he’s subjected to the same kind of scrutiny, we don’t know what his numbers will look like. We do know that Hillary Clinton can stand up to the Republicans, win the race in November, beat Donald Trump, stop the reversal of what we have been able to accomplish during the Obama presidency.”