Hillary, Asked How She’ll Beat Sanders, Spends Two Minutes Bashing Republicans
RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
MATTHEWS: "I know you've been saying nice things about your only opponent now, really a battle since martin O'Malley has withdrawn. It a two person race. I'm going to say this bluntly. The only person between a confirmed social list, political revolution from this country, winning the nomination of the Democratic Party, which has always been more moderate than that, is you. So when you saw that rally last night, the young people all around senator Sanders, when he yelled revolution out there and they all applauded like mad, do you think that's something that is going to help in the general election? Rer we looking at an NBC campaign? November doesn't count. You seem to be focused on the general. How do you beat a person who is coming along in the primary, I'm going to give you all the things you want, free tuition, more social security benefits, health care from birth to death, all the government paid, how do you compete with a revolution to promises really?"
CLINTON: "Well, first let me say, I am thrilled too that we've got young people getting active in the campaign on the Democratic side. I was very proud of the many, many young people working for me volunteering for me, voting, caucusing for me in Iowa, and the ones I have here in new Hampshire, I'm just so impressed with. So that's a net good, no matter what. I do think that we have an obligation to keep people focused on what's at stake in this election, and you got close to saying it, Chris. We can't let the Republicans rip away the progress we've made. We can't let them go back to trickle down economics, appeal the affordable care act, we can't let them stack the supreme court for another generation for common sense kind of changes that we need. We've got to get back to the middle. We've got to get back to the big center, solving problems. That's how we make progress in America. I am proud to be in a line of democratic presidents who just got in there and fought it out, who got civil rights, who got an economy producing incomes, who got the affordable care act bs, something we've been fighting for since Harry Truman. I know how hard this is, and how exciting it can be to be involved in a campaign that really just puts out these great big ideas. But I want folks to stop and think, no matter what age you are, okay, we agree on getting the economy going. We agree on raising incomes. We agree on combating climate change. We agree on universal college, who has the track record, who has the results. Who can actually produce the kind of change you want for yourself and your family, and for our country. So I'm very energized about this, because I like a contest of ideas. That's what politics should be about. We're going to be talking about and arguing about issues on our side, they're going to keep insulting each other on the Republican side. But the goal for any sensible American has to be do not turn the White House over to the Republicans in November. Do not turn the supreme court--"
