Hillary Clinton is continuing to hold onto the transcripts of speeches she gave to groups at investment banks such as Goldman Sachs prior to her current presidential campaign.
Clinton's challenger in the Democrat race for president, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, has been on her case for months to release the speeches. He takes her refusal as a sign she is too close with the Wall Street banks — and Sanders is running a campaign that's flatly against the big Wall Street banks.
"She's not going to basically create a standard that isn't applied to anyone else in this race," a longtime ally of Clinton told
The Hill.
Clinton's overall favorability rating is now at about 40 percent, according to the latest
Real Clear Politics poll. The figure dropped under the 50-percent mark last April and has mostly been on the decline since.
Despite that, Clinton has 1,930 delegate votes to Sanders' 1,189 at this point in the primary season. So while Sanders' tactics might be slowly chipping away at her lead — he won six straight primary contests last month — they're not doing enough to stop Clinton's forward movement.
"As Sanders fades, it becomes less critical," a Clinton adviser told The Hill. "The Republicans don't have the same argument to make — at least half the Goldman Sachs room was probably Republican."
Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, made more than $153 million on paid speaking engagements between 2001 when they left the White House and last spring before she joined the presidential race, according to a February
CNN report.
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