Hillary Clinton DECLINED 3 Times On "Morning Joe" To Say Bernie Sanders Was QUALIFIED To Be Prez [View all]

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Following Sanders' remarks, Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon denied that she had said the Vermont senator wasn't qualified to be president. "Hillary Clinton did not say Bernie Sanders was 'not qualified.' But he has now - absurdly - said it about her. This is a new low," he tweeted. "Bernie Sanders, take back your words about Hillary Clinton," he said in a follow up tweet.

Clinton did, however, decline three times on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday to say that Sanders is qualified.
When asked point-blank by host Joe Scarborough whether Sanders was ready for the Oval Office, Clinton raised the senator's recent interview with the New York Daily News.

"Well, I think the interview raised a lot of serious questions," Clinton said. "I think of it this way: The core of his campaign has been 'break up the banks,' and it it didn't seem in reading his answers that he understood exactly how that would work under Dodd-Frank."

Asked again whether Sanders is qualified, Clinton dodged. "Well, I think he hadn't done his homework, and he'd been talking for more than a year about doing things that he obviously hadn't really studied or understood, and that raises a lot of questions," she said.

Asked a third time, Clinton said she would "leave it to voters to decide who of us can do the job the country needs." Earlier on Wednesday, the Sanders campaign sent out two fundraising emails reacting to Clinton’s comments on “Morning Joe,” as well as an anonymously sourced CNN report claiming her campaign was planning to "disqualify him, defeat him and then they can unify the party later."

"The Clinton campaign has been watching these Wisconsin results come in, and the delegate race of course is tight there, but the reality is they're running out of patience. So they're going to begin deploying a new strategy, it’s going to be called disqualify him, defeat him and then they can unify the party later,” one email said, emphasizing the need for cash to help mount a defense.

“Polls in Wisconsin haven't even been closed for 24 hours, and we're already seeing the start of the Clinton campaign's full-on attack before the New York primary. We knew they were getting nervous, but candidly, we didn't think they would go this negative so quickly. We have to be ready for what comes next,” another Sanders campaign email read.

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