The two Democrats embraced a markedly more contentious tone than when they last debated before the year’s presidential voting began in Iowa, and it signalled how the race for the nomination has tightened five days ahead of the first-in-the-nation primary in New Hampshire next Tuesday.
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With some flights grounded, the snowstorm kept Trump from returning to New Hampshire from an out-of-state campaign rally. “I know you may not be for me know, but I am for you”, Clinton said before repeating a pledge to make Sanders “the first call I will make” should she win the Democratic nomination.
That post-New Hampshire narrative will matter a lot to Sanders because he’s now trailing in the next two Democratic contests: Nevada and SC. Ms Clinton has nearly total name recognition among voters. Her husband ran several campaigns in this state.
Polls show that the Vermont senator, born during World War II and satirized by comedian Larry David as having only one pair of underpants, annihilates Ms Clinton among Democrats under 30.
Clinton has said she’d look into making her remarks to the banks public, but meanwhile, this past week she told CNN host Anderson Cooper that she does not think it was a mistake accepting $675,000 for three speeches to Goldman Sachs, as she did not know at that time if she’d be seeking the presidency again.
For example, he gave her a pass on her past email practices.
The close result in Iowa was the latest twist in an election campaign that, until recently, had been dominated by the crowded and cacophonous field of Republicans, who spread out across New Hampshire this week. For results among the sample of likely Democratic primary voters, the margin of sampling error is plus or minus 4.9 percentage points, it is 5.2 for likely Republican primary voters. South Carolina, a state that has a much more racially diverse electorate than Iowa and New Hampshire, seems to favor Clinton at least for now.
“I want to say a word to the extraordinary people, particularly the young people, who are supporting Senator Sanders”. She has released a detailed policy plans and styled herself as the right person to carry on President Barack Obama’s legacy. “I’m a progressive who gets results” she reiterated this more often. His endorsement would constitute one of the most important from the U.S.’s African-American community.
As for Sanders, he said he will not politicize the issue. In the months leading up to her second presidential bid the former Secretary of State netted millions in corporate speaking fees.
The day before, his campaign scheduled a press conference to tout the endorsement of former NAACP president Ben Jealous.
“Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good”, Sanders said, imitating a line from David’s HBO series “Curb Your Enthusiasm”.
Jealous was in SC for campaign events on Saturday with Erica Garner, whose father died in 2014 after a white NY police officer put the black man in a choke hold.
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“The fact is I do have a somewhat narrower path that I try to walk and I do think sometimes it comes across as a little more restrained, a little more careful and I am sure that is true”, Clinton said.
