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This really rattled Sanders when it came up in the debate last night. He also apparently had campaign staffers posing as union members to try to influence other union members to vote for him.
Via Buzzfeed:
During Thursday’s debate, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said that a campaign ad of his did not falsely claim newspaper endorsement he did not receive.
But, actually, that ad — posted to his YouTube page — did claim that he had received the endorsement.
In one instance, Sanders’s ad — since corrected — claimed he was endorsed by the Valley News newspapers. But as noted by Politifact, that newspaper’s editor said they did not endorse Sanders.
“As I understand it we did not suggest that we had the endorsement of the newspaper,” Sanders said at the debate. “Newspapers who make endorsements also say positive things about other candidates and to the best of knowledge that is what we did. So we never said, that somebody a newspaper endorsed us that did not. What we did say is, blah, blah, blah, blah was said by the newspaper.”