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Hillary Clinton rips Bernie Sanders: ‘Nobody likes him’

The bad blood between Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders is bleeding into 2020 as the former secretary of state refused to say whether she would endorse her 2016 rival if he wins the Democratic nomination and said, “Nobody likes him.”

“I’m not going to go there yet,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in response to whether she’d back Sanders. “We’re still in a very vigorous primary season. I will say, however, that it’s not only him, it’s the culture around him. It’s his leadership team. It’s his prominent supporters. It’s his online Bernie Bros and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women.”

She added, “I really hope people are paying attention to that because it should be worrisome that he has permitted this culture — not only permitted, [he] seems to really be very much supporting it.”

A reporter quoted Clinton saying in an upcoming Hulu documentary about 2016, “He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him. Nobody wants to work with him. He got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney, and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.”

Does “that assessment still hold?” Clinton was asked.

“Yes, it does,” she said.

Sanders, who is serving as a juror in President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, talked to reporters on Capitol Hill.

“On a good day, my wife likes me. So let’s clear the air on that one,” he joked. “Look, right now, today I am dealing with impeachment. Secretary Clinton is entitled to her point of view. My job right now is focusing on the impeachment trial. My job today is to put together a team that can defeat the most dangerous president in the history of the United States of America.”

Clinton, reviving a long-standing grudge from the 2016 election, told Howard Stern in an interview last month that Sanders hurt her presidential campaign when he delayed endorsing her after she won the nomination.

Sanders has denied that claim.

Clinton also sided with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who accused Sanders of telling her that a woman couldn’t win in 2020.

“Well, Number 1, I think [that sentiment] is untrue, which we should all say loudly,” she said, noting that she defeated President Trump in the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes. “If it were a one-off, you might say, ‘OK, fine.’ But he said I was unqualified. I had a lot more experience than he did and got a lot more done than he had, but that was his attack on me.”

Sanders spoke Sunday of the Warren accusations. “I always believed and believe today that a woman can be elected president of the United States,” he said.

The documentary, “Hillary,” will debut at the Sundance Film Festival on March 6.