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Clinton camp: Will Sanders turn into Ralph Nader?

The Clinton campaign has a question for Bernie Sanders: Are you to become “a Ralph Nader and try to destroy the party?”

Clinton’s chief strategist Joel Benenson accused Sanders of issuing attacks that hurt the Democratic Party in an interview with CNN's "New Day" on Tuesday, the day of the New York primary.

"The real challenge, is Senator Sanders going to stop attacks that hurt Democrats that we need up and down the ticket?” Benenson asked. “Is he going to try to support the party that is in favor of protecting voting rights, women's rights, or turn himself into someone who will do what he said he wasn't going do, and be a Ralph Nader and try to destroy the party when it comes to defeating Republicans in November?"

The remarks, a reference to the 2000 general election in which many Democrats felt that the Green Party candidate took votes away from Al Gore, came after host Brooke Baldwin asked him about allegations from the Sanders campaign that Clinton and her team had misused funds between the campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

“This the kind of desperate false attack that they're making on the eve of an election that they know they're losing, that they call the must win election,” Benenson said. “This is the same agreement that senator Sanders signed himself with the DNC.”