Hillary Clinton’s communications director Jennifer Palmieri says Clinton’s belief that Republicans are the enemy she is most proud of making was a “light moment at the end of, as you noticed a litany of people who mean to do America harm.” (RELATED: The Enemy Hillary’s Most Proud Of? ‘Republicans’)
Appearing on “The Situation Room” with Wolf Blitzer Wednesday, Palmieri insisted, “it was a light moment but there’s a real point, I think in that she sees what the Republicans are pursuing is a real threat to progress that the president and vice president have been able to make, let alone what she would want to do as president.”(RELATED: Biden Takes DIRECT Shots At Hillary Clinton)
During a speech in the Rose Garden earlier Wednesday when Biden announced he was not running for president, he argued, “I believe that we have to end the divisive, partisan politics ripping our nation apart, and I think we can,” Biden said. “It’s mean-spirited. It’s petty, and it’s gone on for far too long. I don’t believe, like some do, that it’s naive to talk to Republicans.” (RELATED: Joe Biden Is Not Running For President)
Palmieri doesn’t seem to find an issue in Clinton’s comments or in Biden’s when she explained, “I don’t think that the vice president thinks that is how she portrays this or how she views Republicans… The moment at the debate, I think was a light moment at the end of as you noticed a litany of people who mean to do America harm,” said Palmieri stumbling through her talking points. “But I think in raising the Republicans in that way she is trying to show…what’s at stake in this election.”
“And it is true that when Republican candidates are putting forward would undo a lot of the progress that President Obama and Vice President Biden made,” suggested Palmieri. Clinton is “really concerned about that.”
Clinton hops to “raise the stakes in the election,” with her comments suggested Palmieri.