This year’s US Presidential Election is primed to be one for the history books as former US Secretary of State and Democratic Presidential Candidate, Hillary Clinton, has stated that she will support whomever the Democratic Party deems fit to run against incumbent Republican President Donald Trump. She has promised to give her support, even if the ticket goes to presidential aspirant Bernie Sanders, a candidate she has publicly criticised.
Clinton made this known on Tuesday at the Berlin International Film Festival in Germany while promoting a four-hour documentary about her life set to be released in March. Speaking to the press, the former presidential candidate explained that while her relationship with Sanders might be strained, the goal of their party at the 2020 polls is to unseat her 2016 opponent, President Donald Trump.
“I’m going to wait and see whom we nominate,” she said. “I will support the nominee, and it won’t surprise you to hear me say that I think that it’s imperative that we retire the incumbent.”
‘Sanders is making promises he can’t keep’ – Clinton
In the documentary, Hillary is quoted to have said about Sanders, whom she beat in 2016 for the Democratic nomination: “He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, and he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.”
While the comment was made a year and a half ago when the documentary was being shot and before the 2020 US Presidential Elections, Clinton declined an opportunity to take them back during a taping of the Ellen DeGeneres show where she hammered on the importance of logical plans and promises, explaining that Sanders, was promising ‘the moon.’
Emphasizing the importance of trust and asking voters to hold candidates to their word she said: “We need to rebuild trust in our fellow Americans and in our institutions, and if you promise the moon and you can’t deliver the moon, then that’s going to be one more indicator of how, you know, we just can’t trust each other.”
With a recent Nevada Caucus win, Sanders has cemented his spot as a major front runner for the Democratic ticket. He is certainly one US presidential election candidate President Donald Trump seems to be excited to go against in the polls later this year.
