“It’s a false promise,” Clinton says in the recording,
referencing Sanders’ political revolution. “But I don’t think you tell
idealistic people — particularly young people — that they’ve bought into a
false promise.”
The audio, which was released by the Washington Free Beacon,
comes just three weeks after Clinton faced backlash for calling millions of
Americans supporting Donald Trump “deplorables.”
The recording, which is from a fundraising event in
February,
catches the Democratic nominee calling Sanders’ supporters “children
of the Great Recession” that are “living in their parents’ basement.”
“There is a strain of, on the one hand, the kind of
populist, nationalist, xenophobic, discriminatory kind of approach that we hear
too much of from the Republican candidates,” Clinton states.
She continues:
And on the other side, there’s just a deep desire to believe
that we can have free college, free healthcare, that what we’ve done hasn’t
gone far enough, and that we just need to, you know, go as far as, you know,
Scandinavia, whatever that means, and half the people don’t know what that
means, but it’s something that they deeply feel.
“Some are new to politics completely. They’re children of
the Great Recession. And they are living in their parents’ basement,” Clinton
adds. “They feel they got their education and the jobs that are available to
them are not at all what they envisioned for themselves. And they don’t see
much of a future.”
She continues, “If you’re feeling like you’re consigned to,
you know, being a barista, or you know, some other job that doesn’t pay a lot,
and doesn’t have some other ladder of opportunity attached to it, then the idea
that maybe, just maybe, you could be part of a political revolution is pretty
appealing.”
The audio, which the Washington Free Beacon reports was
“revealed by hackers who breached the email account of a campaign staffer,” is
making headlines after Sanders hit the campaign trail in New Hampshire on
Wednesday to woo millennial voters for Clinton.
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