Clinton: Americans don't get Biden's 'extraordinary accomplishments'

Former 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton suggested Tuesday night that Americans don't quite grasp the 'extraordinary accomplishments' of President Joe Biden.

Clinton pointed out that Biden was able to get both the COVID relief bill and the bipartisan infrastructure deal to his desk, with the Build Back Better bill already passed thorugh the House.

'You know, democracy is messy. You know, a lot of people got, oh I think, kind of frustrated looking at the messy process of legislation,' Clinton told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. 'And they didn't really appreciate that, within a year, the Biden administration has passed two major pieces of legislation through the House and the Senate.'

'By any measure those are extraordinary accomplishments and they really will help many millions of Americans with healthcare and prescription drug prices and climate change and so much else,' the former first lady, senator and secretary of State continued.

Clinton pushed that Republicans have been able to muddle that message.

'But because of the way we are getting our information today, and because of the lack of gatekeepers and people who have a historic perspective, who can help us understand what we are seeing, there is a real vulnerability in the electorate to the kind of demagoguery and disinformation that, unfortunately, the other side is really good at e... (Read more)

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