Former Campaign Aide Responds to Klobuchar’s Clinton Burn: She ‘Should Thank Hillary’

A pair of former Hillary Clinton campaign aides responded to the not-so-veiled shot that Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) took at Clinton over the weekend.

During her campaign launch on Sunday, Klobuchar rankled some Clinton supporters by telling the crowd “We’re going to be in Iowa and in Wisconsin. I think we’re starting in Wisconsin because as you remember there wasn’t a lot of campaigning in Wisconsin in 2016. With me, that changes.”

On Monday afternoon’s edition of CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin, former Clinton campaign senior advisers Jess McIntosh and Joel Payne happened to be the panel, and anchor Brooke Baldwin concluded their segment by asking about Klobuchar’s comments.

Baldwin read Klobuchar’s comment, and said “Burn! I mean, itt wasn’t like Hillary Clinton went to Wisconsin very much.”

“After we get off the air, we’re going to go have drinks,” Payne joked.

“Look at what happened in Wisconsin, which trump won, how are you feeling about that?” Baldwin asked.

“I hope she devotes the same amount of attention to voter disenfranchisement in Wisconsin, which we all know cost well more than the thousands of votes that were in the margin of error,” McIntosh replied.

McIntosh is referring to a 2017 Priorities USA study that showed voter ID laws reduced turnout in Wisconsin by 200,000 voters, and disproportionately disadvantaged Democrats. Trump won Wisconsin by only 23,000 votes.

“She should do what we did not do well,” Payne conceded, but added “She should also thank Hillary Clinton for blazing a trail for her, because there’s a lot of cracks in that invisible wall that Hillary Clinton talked about putting in, and a lot of them are going to benefit Amy Klobuchar.”

Klobuchar may have been playing to the general electorate with her comment, but her path goes through a Democratic primary, where she will need lots of Hillary Clinton supporters in order to succeed.

Watch the clip above, via CNN.

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