Rachel Maddow: I Felt Bill Clinton Didn't Have My Back

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Rachel Maddow: I Felt Bill Clinton Didn't Have My Back
The MSNBC host compares her experience in 1992 with the youthful enthusiasm greeting Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. 
 Neal Broverman
          
          Feb 11, 2016
          
        
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Rachel Maddow spoke of her personal experience with politics in an unscripted moment on MSNBC.
Reporting on the Tuesday victory of Bernie Sanders in the New Hampshire primary -- after which the Vermont senator said "we must pursue ... gay rights" -- Maddow opined on the youthful energy that's lifting his campaign and compared it to her experiences as a teenager watching Bill Clinton campaign for the presidential nomination 24 years ago.
Hear her words below, via Real Clear Politics.

        
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Rachel Maddow: I Felt Bill Clinton Didn't Have My Back

The MSNBC host compares her experience in 1992 with the youthful enthusiasm greeting Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders.

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“Today, as he is facing domestic political disaster in this year’s elections, our wildly unpopular U.S. president has started that war himself,” the MS NOW host said.

"Congress must use all available power to prevent him from further committing us to this conflict," the former vice president said.

“The President has launched our nation and our great military into a war of choice," the Afghanistan War veteran and former transportation secretary said.

In a shocking move, the state’s Department of Health utilized its “11th hour” emergency rule just one day ahead of a lawsuit hearing.

LGBTQ+ stories deserve to betold.

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Most Popular

“These and other changes that scouting America’s leadership committed to,” the Defense Secretary said in a grievance-filled video.

The far-right influencer for months accused the CEO of Turning Point USA of being involved in her husband, Charlie Kirk's, murder.

Radko Gudas made the remark while representing Czechia in Milan.

The California governor urged Democrats to be more "culturally normal."

“This legislation is a direct attack on the dignity and humanity of transgender Kansans,” Monica Bennett, ACLU of Kansas legal director, said.

MAGA Republican Lauren Boebert's son Tyler Boebert, 20, was cited over the weekend for child abuse without injury.