CNN’s Van Jones thinks Hillary Clinton should “be a little bit less defensive” about her “moderate” record.
Thursday on CNN’s “At This Hour With Berman and Bolduan,” Jones said, “So listen, you’ve got to eat the whole hamburger. If you want to be able to claim stuff when you were 20, you got to claim things you did when you were 30 and 42. And she was not a flaming liberal in the 90s.” (RELATED: Hillary Clinton — Alleged Feminist — Declines To Back Generals Who Say Women Should Register For The Draft)
While Clinton and Bernie Sanders are currently battling about who has a more progressive history, Jones said, “I do think that Hillary Clinton could be a little bit less defensive [about her record]. It is very much the case that during the 1990s for instance, Hillary Clinton wasn’t a part of the rainbow coalition.” (RELATED: Hillary: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Is Even Worse Now [VIDEO])
Clinton “wasn’t running around with Jesse Jackson, she wasn’t hanging out with [Michael] Dukakis. [The Clintons] came in this third way door. They came in saying we’re not all that liberal stuff. We’re this new kind of more moderate,” Jones insisted. (RELATED: For Sale: Hillary On Taking $675,000 From Goldman Sachs, ‘That’s What They Offered’ [VIDEO])