Sanders contrasts himself with Clinton’s inconsistencies on TTP, Keystone
MSNBC: Sanders contrasts himself with Clinton’s inconsistencies on TTP, Keystone
Sen. Bernie Sanders said his consistent viewpoint on key issues, including the Keystone XL pipeline program and President Obama’s controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, sharply contrast him with his 2016 rival, Hillary Clinton, in the wake of positions she has reversed recently.
“People will have to contrast my consistency and my willingness to stand up to Wall Street and corporations, big corporations, with the secretary,” said Sanders in an interview excerpt released Friday from NBC’s “Meet the Press”. The full interview airs this Sunday.
Sanders, an independent who is seeking the Democratic nomination for president, is mounting a strong insurgent bid against his front-runner, Clinton. Sanders said he has vehemently opposed the Keystone XL pipeline “from day one,” because “if you’re serious about climate change, you don’t encourage the excavation and transportation of very dirty oil.”
Sanders, who fought an earlier congressional trade authorization bill in the Senate, said Clinton’s opposition “would have been more helpful to have her on board a few months ago” when he was fighting that bill.
“I’ll let the American people determine who has credibility or not [on this issue],” Sanders told reporters after a speech to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute in Washington this week. “I’m glad that she reached that conclusion. This is a conclusion I reached on day one.”
You have to think this is going to be the angle he's going to press in the upcoming debate.
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