Managing editor of Bloomberg Politics Mark Halperin said Thursday “everything that could go wrong or be in a bad place in a Clinton campaign is going wrong with her campaign right now.”
Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Halperin suggested “right now Sanders has momentum, he has money, he’s got message.”
Panelist Willie Geist began, “Hey, Mark Halperin, there’s no question that Bernie Sanders has everything going for him right now, and there’s no spinning to what happened in New Hampshire as anything other than a blowout win for him. But the Clinton campaign still believes that that the campaign begins in earnest now, heading to states where there is more diversity demographically, where there’s a majority of the electorate on the Democratic side in South Carolina is African-American. They have huge leads in those categories. Do you think the Clinton campaign should still feel like it’s in a good spot?”
“Well, Jon Meacham likes to quote Thoreau. I like to quote Haley Barbour, who says in politics ‘good gets better, and bad gets worse,'” Halperin claimed. “And right now Sanders has momentum, he has money, he’s got message. And everything that could go wrong or be in a bad place in a Clinton campaign is going wrong with her campaign right now.” (RELATED: MSNBC’s Mitchell After Clinton’s Loss: Democratic Party Is ‘Completely Splintered’)
In the Clinton campaign “there’s distrust between the candidate and a lot of the staff, there’s questions about the balance between fundraising, positive message, negative message. There’s no doubt that as a static analysis that these next two states, Nevada and South Carolina, should be better for her, but Sanders has momentum and I think in those two states the best she can do is come out with victories and stabilize her campaign,” Halperin said.
“The real battle will be in March where she is going to be almost certainly now at a financial deficit, and fundamentally all the talk about bringing in new people or changing up the message, whatever — she’s going to have to perform as a candidate,” Halperin said. “She’s going to have to remind people why she was the favorite for so many people in the Democratic Party, and it’s hard to do that when you’re on your back feet trying to deal with all the complaints and criticism she’s facing.” (RELATED: Limbaugh: Sanders’ Only Hope To Win Black Vote Is ‘To Promise Reparations’)