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Of course he's right, but then again, so is she when she says he's not qualified.

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In an escalating a war of words between Democratic rivals, Bernie Sanders says Hillary Clinton is not “qualified” to be president.

“Secretary Clinton appears to be getting a little bit nervous,” Sanders said at a rally in Philadelphia on Wednesday. “And she has been saying lately that she thinks that I am ‘not qualified’ to be president. Well, let me, let me just say in response to Secretary Clinton: I don’t believe that she is qualified.”

The Vermont senator cited the former secretary of state’s voting record in the Senate and her ties to Wall Street as reasons she should be disqualified from consideration for the nation’s top job.

“I don’t think that you are qualified if you get $15 million from Wall Street through your super-PAC,” Sanders said. “I don’t think you are qualified if you voted for the disastrous war in Iraq. I don’t think you’re qualified if you supported almost every disastrous trade agreement.“

He added: “I don’t think you are qualified if you supported the Panama free trade agreement, something I very strongly opposed, which … gave the green light to wealthy people and corporations all over the world to avoid paying taxes owed to their countries.”

Sanders’ comments came in response to a pair of interviews in which Clinton questioned whether he is qualified to be president — and whether an independent senator and self-described democratic socialist is even a true Democrat.

“He’s a relatively new Democrat, and, in fact, I’m not even sure he is one,” Clinton said in a podcast interview with Politico published Wednesday. “He’s running as one. So I don’t know quite how to characterize him.”

Sanders has previously sought and won office only as an independent, remaining formally outside the Democratic party from the start of his political career as mayor of Burlington, Vt., in 1980 until the start of his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2015.

 
 
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