Rosario Dawson compared anti-Bernie Sanders rhetoric to the bullying Monica Lewinsky faced

Rosario Dawson
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Actress Rosario Dawson drew a comparison between the backlash faced by Bernie Sanders from Hillary Clinton supporters and by Monica Lewsinky following her affair with former President Bill Clinton.

"We are literally under attack for not just supporting the other candidate," Politico reports Dawson said at a Delaware rally on Saturday. "Now I'm with Monica Lewinsky on this. Bullying is bad."

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.