AP Photo Sanders: Anti-Clinton ad fell into a 'gray area'

Bernie Sanders offered an explanation on Tuesday for why his campaign pulled an ad criticizing Hillary Clinton, saying the online spot veered into a “gray area” of negativity.

“You’re looking at someone who has never run a negative TV ad in his life and never will,” Sanders told ABC News. “There are sometimes there are gray areas, we felt that it was a gray area, we took the ad down.”


“We are running a positive campaign,” Sanders continued. “Now, you ask any other candidate out there if they’ve ever run negative television ads. Not one of them will say they haven’t. I have not.”

The ad, which drew contrasts with the “big money interests” that funded Clinton’s campaign, appeared briefly online before being pulled Saturday. At the time, Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs said the ad was posted due to “a miscommunication in our communications shop.”