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You can vote but you’d better not touch. That might be a campaign theme for Hillary Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin, after she was videoed firmly rejecting a supporter’s hug moments after Thursday’s Democratic presidential debate.
The video shows the woman, who is not identified, briefly touching and then talking with a smiling Clinton as Clinton leaves the debate stage through a sea of well-wishers.
Abedin, who is shown talking intensely throughout the video although there was no audio, was next on the woman’s list.
However, all the woman was able to do was get one arm out before Abedin firmly disengaged the woman’s arm and moves her aside out of her path. Abedin then kept moving forward, barely giving the woman a glance as she continued her rapid-fire speaking.
“Hillary ’16 is essentially the same mixed-bag candidate she’s always been: amply informed but often uninspiring, more focused on the tactical task of fileting her opponent than the strategic imperative of delivering a succinct, appealing message—an establishment fixture in an era of populist statue-smashing,” wrote Glenn Thrush on Politico.
“Hillary Clinton does not come across as a genuine person who really means what she says and wants to change the country for the better. Rather, she comes across as a package that has been put together by somebody in the background who has an agenda and placed before a skeptical public for consumption. When not enough people bite, she gets repackaged and repackaged and repackaged in hopes that the con job will eventually stick. Not saying that is what is going on, but it sure looks like it to me,” wrote Red Pill of FT.
h/t: The Hill