Clinton Spox on Trump: Hillary Will Never Run on ‘Bigotry and Bluster’
RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
SCIUTTO: "Let me ask you this because I don’t want to get ahead of ourselves here. But looking ahead to the possibility of a general election, there are Democrats I’ve spoken with who say that let’s say it is trump versus Clinton, that there are issues that trump actually matches up pretty well with Hillary Clinton, particularly blue collar voters who are upset about trade agreements signed by Hillary Clinton’s husband. But also the loss of jobs. That he’s eating into a base that you might have expected her to be able to rely on. I wonder how significant a concern that is. Again, not to get ahead of ourselves, but in a potential Clinton-Trump matchup."
FINNEY: "But here’s the thing. I understand why senator Sanders campaign wants to talk about the ‘90s and, you know, attack Hillary Clinton for the things that her husband did rather than actually talking about her own record when she was a senator, and in the Senate she voted against the trade agreement and she’s voted against other trade agreements. So I understand why they don’t want to talk about that, but we’re going to keep talking about that and that’s part of why we’re also going to keep talking about what her ideas are, all of which are paid for, all of which are very well thought out in terms of how we create jobs, how we incentivize the private industry to support communities that have been left behind, invest in those communities, make sure we protect health care, make sure we’re increasing incomes, so there’s some very different ideas that Hillary has about those things than does senator Sanders. Clearly I think it’s pretty obvious Hillary is nowhere near ever going to run a campaign on the kind of bigotry and bluster that we’re seeing from the Republican side led by Donald Trump. So we feel good about where wore and we think we have a message that is resonating with people. It is true to their lives. We feel good going into tonight. I think the debate will be good and we feel good about next week."
