Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday that Democrats need to do better at selling their agenda ahead of November while acknowledging that midterm elections “are obviously always difficult for the party in power.”
The 2016 Democratic presidential nominee said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the “hand-wringing” occurring among Democrats over how far left or center the party should go is part of their DNA “whether we’re in or out of power.”
“I’m not quite sure what the disconnect is between the accomplishments of the administration, and this Congress, and the understanding of what’s been done, and the impact it will have on the American public, and some of the polling and the ongoing hand-wringing,” she said.
Nonetheless, Clinton said Democrats need to stand up to Republicans’ “nuttiness” and that Americans don’t “want to be governed by people who live in a totally different reality.”….
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on the U.S. to “impose even greater costs” on Russian President Vladimir Putin as punishment for Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Driving the news: Clinton on NBC’s “Meet the Press” said the U.S. should not allow Russia back into international organizations.
What she’s saying: Clinton said she wouldn’t allow Russia at the upcoming G-20 summit in November, “and if they insisted on literally showing up, I would hope there would be a significant, if not total, boycott,” she added.
Clinton called for more financial punishments on Putin and Russia.
- “There are more banks that can be sanctioned and taken out of the so-called SWIFT relationship,” she said. “There is an increasing call for doing more on gas and oil.”
- She added: “I think now is the time to double-down on the pressure.”
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