Hillary Says She Bought Powerball Ticket, Will ‘Fund My Campaign’ If She Wins

Dream big, America. On Wednesday morning’s Good Morning America, ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos capped off his interview with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by asking if she has purchased a ticket for the current billion-dollar-plus Powerball jackpot, and what she would do if she won. Hillary’s response is probably what you would expect from any average starry-eyed American:

Stephanopoulos: Before we go, you buy a Powerball ticket?

Hillary Clinton: I did.

Stephanopoulos: And if you win?

Hillary Clinton: Well, I’ll fund my campaign.

I’m guessing it won’t be long before Hillary wishes she could go back in time and, after killing Baby Hitler, warn herself that the correct answers to those questions are “No,” and “Give it all to the poors.” Nobody likes hearing that a rich person bought a lottery ticket, let alone that they might win. It’s like hearing that Chris Christie raided a Unicef pantry.

Elsewhere in the interview, Hillary took shots at Bernie Sanders over policy, which is a normal thing to do that Stephanopoulos tried to cast as a reaction to the tightening of the early state polls. However, that dynamic, which has led Sanders to literally stick to his guns on gun control, seems to have had an effect on the way Hillary has approached Bernie on policy. Who would have guessed in 2008, when Barack Obama was running against Hillary’s individual mandate, that Hillary would be running against single payer in 2016?

“What Senator Sanders has said, and it’s his perfect right to say it, he wants a national health care single payer system,” Clinton told Stephanopoulos, adding that Sanders should now “tell the people how much it will cost them. Every analysis shows it’s going to cost middle class families and working families. And also explain why, after this historic achievement of President Obama, we’ve been fighting to get some kind of affordable care since Harry Truman. now he wants to start all over again.”

Casting Sanders’ position as undermining President Obama is probably good politics for Hillary in this race, but attacking single payer as too expensive, when the analyses to which she refers never take into account the savings derived from not having to buy health insurance, is a wild swing. It’s not a desperate one, though. Clinton surrogates have been sounding the same note since the early summer.

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