Ahead of South Carolina and
Super Tuesday, Sanders and supporters highlight candidates' records
In speeches and social media
campaigns, the contrasts between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are coming
into sharp focus just ahead of major nominating contests in a dozen states.
Sanders, who is leading
in national
polls but trailing
in South Carolina, which holds its Democratic primary on Saturday,
"unloaded" on Clinton in a speech to roughly 6,500 people at Chicago
State University on Thursday evening, the Washington Post reported.
Amplifying the arguments
he's made in
recent days, Sanders "attacked Clinton for having accepted campaign
contributions and speaking fees from Wall Street interests. And then he sharply
criticized her support, as first lady and as a New York senator, of welfare
reform, free trade, an anti-gay rights bill and the Iraq War—all measures he
opposed during his long career in Congress," according to the Post, which
described the remarks as "striking for both their length...and his
tone."
Meanwhile, on Twitter
Thursday, hashtags were employed to further draw distinctions between the
candidates' records.
Piggybacking on Black Lives
Matter activist Ashley
Williams' #WhichHillary hashtag—which was written at the bottom of a banner
Williams held up while calling
Clinton out for hypocrisy on racial and criminal justice at a fundraiser
this week—hundreds
of thousands took to Twitter on Thursday and overnight to criticize
Clinton's contradictory record on a number of issues including marriage
equality, race, healthcare, Iraq, and more.
The hashtag went viral—though
Twitter, whose executive chairman Omid Kordestani recently
held a fundraiser for Clinton, was later accused
of censoring it.
As of Friday morning, the hashtag had accumulated well over 350,000 mentions.
Sanders' supporters
contributed to the conversation, the Huffington Post reported,
"creating the hashtag #OnlyOneBernie to contrast Sanders' perceived
consistency with Clinton's supposed two-faced nature."
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