The Democrat will also look to engage more directly with the other nominees, which Devine affirmed Sanders is more aware of after his first debate. In an interview with the NY Times, CBS News Executive Editor Steve Capus said the moderator’s plans had changed “dramatically” after news of the attacks broke.
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“American leadership is put to the test”, Capus also told the newspaper.
“I think it’s important that I talk to people my age and see where they stand on these issues”, said the 23-year-old Sanchez. “These people are vying to take over this office”.
“He has to decide if he’s going to continue down the road of distinguishing his record from the Clinton record”, said Jeff Link, a Democratic strategist based in Iowa, who worked on Obama’s campaign, “or if he’s going to go back to the formula that was successful for him, which is talking about what he believes in and where he’s going to take the country”.
Joe Biden’s anticlimactic decision to forego another presidential campaign and the expected departures of Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee leave a bigger spotlight on the remaining Democratic hopefuls, each with presumably different strategies heading into the Iowa Caucus.
Pepper, who is staying neutral for the presidential primary season, has said that motivating high turnout will be pivotal for Democrats in Ohio. While the GOP debates have been main weeknight events, last week’s Democratic forum was buried on a Friday night. In polls of both early-state voters and national Democrats, his support hovers below 5 percent. O’Malley has also charged Clinton with flip-flopping her opinion on gun control as well, something we may see more of Saturday. It doesn’t help her case that the Washington Post Fact Checker, while noting a few ambiguity, has given Clinton Two Pinocchios on this story, along with reminding readers of past problems in her biography such as “landing under sniper fire in Bosnia or getting the date wrong for hearing a speech by Martin Luther King Jr”.
As Sanders and Clinton consume most of the spotlight, the clock is ticking for O’Malley. “He’s way too far left”, he said. Sanders, by contrast, has struggled to build upon his momentum from the summer. Clinton now leads Sanders in most national polls by around 20 points. National committee member Billi Gosh, of Brookfield, said she supports Clinton as well. Barack Obama carried the state in his election as president. “Even if he were to win New Hampshire, it could be written off as a home-state victory because he’s from across the border”.
He finished September with less than $1 million in campaign funds, and out of the $3.6 million he’s raised as of October 16, only eight percent came from small donations of $200 or less, as opposed to Sanders’s outrageous 77 percent and Clinton’s 17 percent. I think that the secretary is right. Next, it passed a rule that any candidate who showed up for a debate that the DNC didn’t sanction would be banned from appearing in any officially-sanctioned Democratic debate.
Sanders has turned up the heat on Clinton on the campaign trail, questioning her sincerity and trustworthiness after she reversed course to join ranks with him and other opponents of the Asian trade pact and Keystone XL pipeline.
Six of the state’s 18 super-delegates, including U.S. Sen.
In the first debate, Sanders famously said Americans don’t care about Clinton’s “damn emails”, suggesting the inquiry into her use of a private email system should be off-limits. The website Vox.com has pointed out that Saturday debates are rare.
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CBS News, which is hosting the nationally televised two-hour debate, said it planned to press the candidates on how they would confront the evolving threat of terrorism in the aftermath of Friday night’s bomb and gun rampage across Paris claimed by Islamic State, in which at least 127 people died.
