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October 3, 2016

Clinton Tape: Sanders Supporters "Living in Their Parents' Basement"
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In other campaign news, a leaked audio recording reveals Hillary Clinton
told a group of donors she's the center-left to center-right alternative
to Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. The candid remarks were recorded at
a Clinton fundraiser in Virginia last February and leaked late last week
to the conservative website Washington Free Beacon. In the remarks,
Clinton says she is straddling the line between two extremes in American
politics. On the Republican side, she says, is a "populist, nationalist,
xenophobic, discriminatory" approach.

Hillary Clinton: "And on the other side, there's just a deep desire to
believe that, you know, we can have free college, free healthcare, that
what we've done hasn't gone far enough, and we just need to, you know,
go as far as, you know, Scandinavia, whatever that means. And half the
people don't know what it means, but it is something that they deeply
feel. So, as a friend of mine said the other day, I am occupying from
the center-left to the center-right. And I don't have much company
there."

In other remarks, Clinton explains the appeal of then-rival Senator
Bernie Sanders to young voters, saying, "They're children of the Great
Recession. And they are living in their parents' basement." Sanders
rushed to Clinton's defense over the weekend, calling Clinton's remarks
"absolutely correct."
Topics:Bernie Sanders Hillary Clinton2016 Election

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