Clinton Bungles Response on Ties to Wall Street

The Economist says the low point of last night’s Democratic debate “involved a tussle about campaign finance, as Mr Sanders came close to accusing Mrs Clinton of being in hock to big banks on Wall Street, thanks to years of hefty donations from bankers and titans of finance.”

“Mrs Clinton’s reply combined indignation, an irrelevant appeal to feminist pride, and a bizarre riff about the September 11th attacks, by which she seemed to imply that taking money from big banks was her way of making sure that the terrorists behind that 2001 atrocity did not win. It was so odd, and so shameless, that it is worth quoting in full.”

Glenn Thrush: “The pressure of the dual Sanders-O’Malley attack on Clinton’s Wall Street connections prompted her to say one of the craziest things she’s uttered in public during this campaign or any other.”

Chris Cillizza said it is “hard to overstate how little sense Clinton’s … argument makes.”