WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign jumped at a chance to portray Democratic rival Sen. Bernie Sanders as being at odds with President Barack Obama on gun control after the president denounced legislation protecting gun-makers from lawsuits.

Sanders aides said there was “zero daylight” between Obama and Sanders and have argued that he was re-evaluating his position on the gun manufacturer liability law he voted for in 2005.

“Maybe it’s time for Sen. Sanders to stand up and say, ‘I got this one wrong,’” Clinton told MSNBC’s “Hardball” on Friday. “When it really mattered, Sen. Sanders voted with the gun lobby, and I voted against the gun lobby.”

In turn, the Sanders campaign cited a 2008 mail ad in which the Clinton campaign that year said Obama had once favored a ban on handguns but later said he supported the Second Amendment, then spoke of “bitter” people who “cling to their guns.”

“Maybe Secretary Clinton should apologize for attacking the president in 2008 because he was too strong on gun control,” Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver said in a statement.

Clinton’s attack comes less than a month before the first round of primary voting and mark an effort by her team to cast their candidate as the natural heir to Obama, who remains a beloved figure among Democratic primary voters.