Evan El-Amin / Shutterstock.com
CV NEWS FEED // Hillary Clinton this week chastised left-leaning voters who remain uncommitted to voting for President Joe Biden in November. “Get over yourself,” she said. It’s not “a hard choice.”
“Biden vs. Trump. We know that,” host Jimmy Fallon said to Clinton during her Monday appearance on NBC’s The Tonight Show.
“It is,” Clinton agreed.
“What do you say to voters who are upset that those are the two choices?” Fallon asked her.
“Get over yourself,” Clinton replied. “Those are the two choices.”
“It’s kind of like one is old and effective and compassionate,” Clinton continued, describing Biden. “[He] has a heart and really cares about people.”
“And one is old, and has been charged with 91 felonies,” she added, referring to former President Donald Trump, who defeated her in a major upset eight year ago.
Many observers hold that the various legal accusations against Trump are politically charged. The former president has consistently maintained his innocence.
“I don’t understand why this is even a hard choice,” Clinton told Fallon.
“Really, I don’t understand it, but we have to go through the election and hopefully people will realize what’s at stake because it’s an existential question,” she said. “What kind of country we’re going to have, what kind of democracy we’re going to have.”
“And people who blow that off are not paying attention,” she stressed.
“Because it’s not like Trump, his enablers, his empowerers, his allies are not telling us what they want to do,” the defeated former candidate said. “It’s pretty clear what kind of country they want.”
Many critics from across the political spectrum quickly took to X (formerly Twitter) to slam Clinton’s remarks.
Retired Army colonel and former Trump administration Veterans Affairs official James Hutton wrote: “Hillary laments the fact that an election for president is even necessary.”
“She favors simply giving Biden a second term,” Hutton added. “Liberals are sure they know better than the huddled masses.”
Far-left activist and writer Owen Jones also blasted Clinton’s remarks.
“Really glad to see she’s learned lessons from her 2016 defeat then!” he wrote
Breitbart London Managing Editor Simon Kent agreed: “Nothing like intemperate advice from a two-time failed presidential candidate to set the tone for an election year…”
Eight years before her unexpected general election loss to Trump, Clinton lost the contest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination to eventual President Barack Obama.
At the beginning of the race, Clinton was the odds-on favorite over Obama, then a little-known first-term senator.
