Hillary Clinton is treating her Democratic competitors like Voldemort

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published 17 July 2015

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton is taking a page from Harry Potter — in the series, most characters prefer not to directly mention arch-villain Lord Voldemort by name — and refusing to say the names of her primary challengers.

While Sen. Bernie Sanders is the only other declared Democratic candidate currently polling above 2 percent, Politico notices that Clinton has to date neatly avoided mentioning that she has any primary opponents at all. That may change tonight, as Clinton is joined by rivals Sanders, Jim Webb, Lincoln Chafee, and Martin O'Malley at a Democratic Party event in Iowa.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.