{"id":85955,"date":"2016-01-21T12:20:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=85955"},"modified":"2016-01-27T14:07:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T19:07:45","slug":"sanders-hits-establishment-planned-parenthood-endorsing-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sanders-hits-establishment-planned-parenthood-endorsing-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders hits “establishment” Planned Parenthood for endorsing Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Planned Parenthood’s endorsement<\/a> of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton for president has led to a small war of words between the abortion giant and Clinton’s competitor for the party nomination, socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Sanders told<\/a> MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that he was running to “tak[e] on not only Wall Street and the economic establishment, we\u2019re taking on the political establishment,” then said that Planned Parenthood (among other groups) had endorsed the former First Lady instead of him because “Hillary Clinton has been around there for a very, very long time and some of these groups are, in fact, part of the establishment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The next day, Clinton and Planned Parenthood both issued tweets criticizing the statement:<\/p>\n

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Really Senator Sanders? How can you say that groups like @PPact<\/a> and @HRC<\/a> are part of the "establishment" you're taking on? -H<\/p>\n

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n