Sanders has taken heat from Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on gun control.
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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”.
A sense of anxiety is cascading through Hillary Clinton’s campaign, with an increasing sense of urgency the primary fight with Bernie Sanders is far more of a threat than once imagined, unlikely to be extinguished after the first contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.
The polls also show that Sanders performs better in head-to-head matchups with Republicans Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio than Clinton does, giving his campaign ammunition to rebut Clinton’s argument that she is more electable in a general election.
And up Rubio is up by five points over Clinton (47 percent to 42 percent), while he’s tied with Sanders (44 percent to 44 percent). Bernie Sanders with “some movement” on guns in recent days.
Sanders on Friday held a news conference in Cedar Rapids to distinguish himself from Clinton on paid family medical leave.
Sanders, a US senator for Vermont, said he would “do everything I can to stand up to the Donald Trumps of the world and their bigotry and their xenophobia”.
Aides to Sanders said Saturday night that the senator’s comments at the rally were consistent with his stance on the liability law for the past several months. She has also had trouble creating a sense of urgency among her committed supporters, which is one reason she is escalating her exchanges with Sanders.
“There are some people who suggest that, ‘Well, Bernie Sanders might be a nice guy, or not a nice guy … but, you know what, he can’t win”.
An NBC/The Wall Street Journal/Marist poll released Sunday found Clinton with 48 percent and Sanders with 45 percent of likely caucus goers, representing a closer margin than past polls have indicated.
He contrasted that with Clinton who does not support the tax increase.
Said Clinton: “I sure don’t want to turn over health care to Republican governors for heaven’s sake”.
Iowa holds its caucuses on February 1, while the New Hampshire primary is February 9. “There are parts of it that made sense to me”, Sanders said.
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CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misstated the results of the December Des Moines Register poll.
