Tuesday, July 6, 2004 7:25 p.m. EDT
Nader: Kerry Has 'Watergate'-style Dirty Tricks Operation
Maverick presidential candidate Ralph Nader is accusing the Kerry campaign of launching a "Watergate"-style dirty tricks operation in a bid to keep him off the ballot in November.
Nader personally leveled the allegation in a conversation with John Kerry Tuesday morning, and detailed the exchange later in the day for national radio host Sean Hannity.
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"I said, 'You better look and see what your Democrats are doing here because they can get in trouble'. . . . I told him, 'This could be a kind of Watergate.'"
Nader said that Kerry has "got these rambunctious, aggressive underlings of his" who have been infiltrating his events and sabotaging his efforts to get on the ballot.
Kerry told Nader that he didn't know what he was taking about but promised to look into it.
"I think Terry McAuliffe is going to be called by Kerry," Nader told Hannity, "because he told me last week that he's supporting these kind of interferences."
Nader said that while he still considers Kerry a personal friend, he's staying in the race till the bitter end.
Asked about the complaint that he was hurting Kerry's chances to defeat Bush, Nader shot back, "He's hurting my chances."
Nader: Kerry Has 'Watergate'-style Dirty Tricks Operation
Maverick presidential candidate Ralph Nader is accusing the Kerry campaign of launching a "Watergate"-style dirty tricks operation in a bid to keep him off the ballot in November.
Nader personally leveled the allegation in a conversation with John Kerry Tuesday morning, and detailed the exchange later in the day for national radio host Sean Hannity.
Story Continues Below
"I said, 'You better look and see what your Democrats are doing here because they can get in trouble'. . . . I told him, 'This could be a kind of Watergate.'"
Nader said that Kerry has "got these rambunctious, aggressive underlings of his" who have been infiltrating his events and sabotaging his efforts to get on the ballot.
Kerry told Nader that he didn't know what he was taking about but promised to look into it.
"I think Terry McAuliffe is going to be called by Kerry," Nader told Hannity, "because he told me last week that he's supporting these kind of interferences."
Nader said that while he still considers Kerry a personal friend, he's staying in the race till the bitter end.
Asked about the complaint that he was hurting Kerry's chances to defeat Bush, Nader shot back, "He's hurting my chances."
