Clinton & Sanders Sharpen Attacks Ahead of Debate.
CAMEROTA: The race for the Democratic presidential nomination heating up over policy with the New York primary just a week away.</s>HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I started co- sponsoring the DREAM Act back in 2002 or 2003. And I consistently did that. Senator Sanders, by contrast, was supporting vigilantes, the so-called Minutemen on the border.</s>SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Secretary Clinton and her State Department worked to export fracking throughout the world. In my view, that is unacceptable.</s>CAMEROTA: Joining us now to talk about all this is former New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who was favored to succeed New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg but lost to a progressive outsider known as Bill de Blasio. Quinn is a Hillary Clinton supporter and knows all too well the challenges Hillary Clinton faces now in New York. Great to see you, Christine. Thanks for being here.</s>CHRISTINE QUINN, FORMER NYC COUNCIL SPEAKER: Of course.</s>CAMEROTA: Are there -- they say they are talking about policy, both Clinton and Sanders. But are their attacks getting too barbed? Is their tone nastier than a simple policy discussion?</s>QUINN: Well, look, I think it's very clear that Senator Sanders knows that it is basically impossible for him to win this nomination. Secretary Clinton --</s>CAMEROTA: Does he? Because he said he still has a path. He's eating into her delegate count and he has a path.</s>QUINN: The math is clear. There is no way for him to get enough delegates and I think that is why you see Senator Sanders really taking the low road and why you see him, you know, coming out with these attacks that are really largely baseless and very barbed, and I think that is often unfortunately what happens when a candidate see it is road coming to an end.</s>CAMEROTA: I mean, of course, he says that her attacks aren't fair. He said particularly about how he supported vigilantes. He said no I do not support vigilantes. That is a horrific statement, an unfair statement.</s>QUINN: I think Secretary Clinton was clearly laying out the distinctions between her long time kind of unparalled record of support for true comprehensive immigration reform that really builds on the history of this country and this state as a state of immigrants. And the senator's record on immigration, which is nowhere near hers in really committing to really making this country open to everyone.</s>CAMEROTA: So, do you see similarities between Hillary Clinton in this contest against Bernie Sanders, who, of course, is running to the left of her and what you went through with Bill de Blasio, who was running to the left of you. And if so, what lessons can you share with Mrs. Clinton?</s>QUINN: Well, you know, President Obama recently said and I think you sum it up right, that women candidates have to do everything male candidates have to do but have to do it backwards and in high heels. And there is no real debating that women candidates are often held to a higher standard.</s>CAMEROTA: Why is that? Why is it harder for women candidates?</s>QUINN: Well, I think, you know, that is a question that deserves a long sociological answer on the history of women in the United States. But the truth is we are held to a higher standard and that is the reality and that is in fact what Secretary Clinton has fought against and succeeded against her entire career, and not for herself. But to open up a path for women and girls around the world to make sure that, that isn't the case for them as they get older and they seek to fulfill their dreams in politics or whatever field is their calling.</s>CAMEROTA: Vice President Joe Biden talked about this very thing yesterday. He did this online interview. And he talked about the appeal, to him, of a female candidate. Listen to this.</s>JOSEPH BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: This country is ready for a woman. There's no problem, we'll be able to elect a woman in this country.</s>REPORTER: Would you like to see us elect a woman in this country?</s>BIDEN: I would like to see a woman elected.</s>CAMEROTA: So he'd like to see a woman elected, Christine, but he's not using Hillary Clinton's name. I mean, why is he being vague about that?</s>QUINN: Well, look, he's the sitting vice president of the United States, right? And I think it would be inappropriate for him or the president for that matter to come out and make a choice in the Democratic primary. That is not what sitting presidents or sitting vice presidents do. But there is only one woman running for president of the United States and vague is not usually a word used, God bless him, with Joe Biden. So, I don't think he was vague at all. I think he was crystal clear. Probably a little beyond what he might even have been, but that's the glory of Joe Biden as well. And I think again, just as Vice President Biden predicted with marriage equality, he was correct, we would have it in the country. I think he's making a similar prediction that we will have our first female president of the United States and this election, and that persona will be Hillary Clinton and the country will be so much better for it.</s>CAMEROTA: And yet, isn't it interesting to hear young women who talk about the idea of just voting for someone because they are a woman seems to them to be sexist? They think we're past that.</s>QUINN: Well, look, I don't think anybody should vote for anybody for one reason. I'm not voting for Hillary Clinton just because she's a woman. Is it thrilling and exciting to me the idea of making history and I like to think of myself as young woman? Of course it is. But there are so many reasons to vote for Secretary Clinton. You can't touch her record. No one else can. From fighting for healthcare from before it was on the agenda. From taking women's rights issues to the international stage. It was she who said for the first time ever on the world stage that women's rights were human rights, and then later as secretary of state said LGBT rights were human rights. No one had taken those kind of issues onto the international stage the way she has. And let's not forget, as New Yorkers. She was by our side after September 11th. She never left us. She kept fighting. She made sure our first responders had healthcare. And that's the kind of fighter she's going to be in the White House and that's how she'll succeed for New Yorkers and for everybody and that is why she's going to win big on Tuesday.</s>CAMEROTA: Christine Quinn, thanks so much for being on NEW DAY. Nice to have you in studio.</s>QUINN: Thank you very much.</s>CAMEROTA: Let's get over to Chris.</s>CUOMO: All right, Alisyn. The son of a former California lawmaker freed from prison. His manslaughter sentence drastically reduced by then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a family friend. 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