MSNBC: Clinton’s Campaign ‘Concerned’ with ‘Signs’ They Are Seeing in This Race

‘Hillary Clinton supporters are sharpening their attacks against primary opponent Bernie Sanders’

SNOW: “Hillary Clinton supporters are sharpening their attacks against primary opponent Bernie Sanders with the self-described Democratic socialist leading Clinton in New Hampshire. Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill told Kasie Hunt today that a socialist cannot win her state. Of course she’s a Clinton supporter. Here with me now, to walk through the rapidly shifting Democratic primary, MSNBC political correspondent Steve Kornacki is with us. Steve, we’ve been seeing a lot of different attacks on Sanders all day long, including from Bill Clinton, although he doesn’t use Sanders’ name.”
KORNACKI: “Yeah. I think we’re starting to see right now a Clinton campaign and its allies that are concerned about some of the signs they’re seeing in this Democratic race. You mentioned that New Hampshire poll, the one that came out yesterday gave Bernie Sanders, a 27-point lead over Hillary Clinton. This is a huge development. Now, again, this is the only poll in New Hampshire that shows that this lopsided, but there’s been seven polls in New Hampshire since the new year. Six of them have Bernie Sanders ahead there. So that concern from the Clinton side that — hey is this Sanders thing starting to get a little bit out of control? Do we need to do something to rein it in? Can we do something to rein it in? You’re starting to see some responses from Clinton’s world. You mentioned Claire McCaskill, the Missouri Senator, she talked to Kasie Hunt, basically saying because of his status as a self-described socialist, Bernie Sanders is unelectable. I mean, we can play a clip of that. I thought we had a clip of that,  but apparently we don’t. But Claire McCaskill making that argument. She’s of course a Clinton supporter. You also have Jay Nixon, he is the governor of Missouri, he’s in ‘The New York Times’ article today saying, here in the heartland, we like our politicians in the mainstream and he, Bernie Sanders, he’s a socialist. Jay Nixon, Democratic governor in Missouri, a Hillary Clinton supporter, he’s sounding the alarm about it. So you’re hearing comments like that.”

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