Sanders Jabs At Hillary In New Campaign Ad [VIDEO]

The Clinton camp is very unhappy with this ad. Via the New York Times:



In the pantheon of campaign attack ads, this one seemed gentle enough: Senator Bernie Sanders explains his intention to regulate the financial industry, including breaking up the big Wall Street banks.

“There are two Democratic visions for regulating Wall Street,” he says amid stock images of faceless bankers, bags of money and a wholesome family. “One says it’s O.K. to take millions from big banks and then tell them what to do.”

He never mentions his main Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, but her campaign said he might as well have.

On a conference call with reporters, Mrs. Clinton’s senior campaign aides expressed outrage over the ad, which will air in Iowa and New Hampshire and which Clinton aides said violated Mr. Sanders’s pledge to never run a negative attack ad against a political opponent.

“You’ll have to ask Senator Sanders — he’s in this ad — why he decided to do something he so proudly said he’d never do,” said Joel Benenson, Mrs. Clinton’s chief strategist and pollster.