Sunday 14 August 2022 02:28 PM Hillary Clinton rips Bernie Sanders as sexist in new book trends now

Hillary Clinton has insinuated in a new book by an NBC News reporter that she believes her former 2016 Democratic primary rival Bernie Sanders is a sexist, remarking 'I know the kind of things that he says about women and to women.' 

Clinton made the remarks to NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitali in her new book 'Electable: Why America Hasn’t Put a Woman In the White House … Yet.'

In an excerpt published by Politico on Friday, the journalist recalls Clinton's comments that followed a widely televised heated clash between Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who were both on the ballot for the 2020 presidential election.

Warren accused Sanders during the debate of telling her in private that a woman couldn't win the presidency. He denied making the comment, which pushed Warren to confront him onstage after the debate while their microphones were still on. 

Clinton, who watched it all unfold, told Vitali: 'I believed her, because I know Sanders, and I know the kind of things that he says about women and to women. So, I thought that she was telling an accurate version of the conversation they'd had.'

Vitali's book, a political memoir that focuses on her time covering female candidates in the recent U.S. presidential elections, is due out later this month.