Bernie Sanders is hitting Hillary Clinton hard in a new ad that criticizes her Wall Street speeches and stance on the minimum wage.
The ad is being released a day after the contentious debate between the two Democratic presidential candidates in Brooklyn, where Sanders used sarcasm to go after his rival on both issues.
{mosads}“While Washington politicians are paid over $200,000 an hour for speeches, they oppose raising the living wage to 15 dollars an hour,” the ad’s narrator says. “Two hundred thousand dollars an hour for them but not even 15 bucks an hour for all Americans. Enough is enough.”
The ad doesn’t mention Clinton by name but features many of the criticisms the Vermont senator launched at her during Thursday night’s debate.
At the debate, Clinton raised eyebrows by saying she would sign legislation raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour. She had previously backed a federal minimum wage of $12 per hour.
As Sanders mocked her, saying people would be surprised to hear she supported the $15 per hour wage, Clinton argued she had “supported the fight for 15” in cities such as New York and Los Angeles.
When Clinton claimed to have “called out” the big banks, Sanders said” “Oh my gosh, they must have been really crushed by this. Was that before or after you received huge sums of money giving speaking engagements?”
Sanders from the beginning vowed to never run a negative campaign ad, but both candidates have turned up the heat ahead of New York’s critical primary next week.
“Wall Street banks shower Washington politicians with campaign contributions and speaking fees,” the narrator continues. “And what do they get for it? A rigged economy. Tax breaks and bailouts. All held in place by a corrupt campaign finance system.”
Both candidates have campaigned hard across the state leading up to the primary, but polls show the former two-term New York senator with the advantage. Clinton leads Sanders by 14 points, 53 percent to 39 percent, according to a RealClearPolitics average of polls.