U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton can not be in two places at once in the weeks before the first party-nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, but she came close on Tuesday with daughter Chelsea Clinton’s campaign trail debut.
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A Quinnipiac University Poll, released Tuesday, said that Sanders, a senator from Vermont, is leading Clinton, 49 percent to 44 percent.
The latest Quinnipiac and Monmouth polls paint a slightly more optimistic picture for Sanders than the Wall Street Journal/NBC/Marist survey published Sunday, which found Sanders trailing Clinton by 3 points in Iowa and leading Clinton by only 4 points in New Hampshire.
Hillary Clinton faces a tough race in the state as rival Bernie Sanders continues to make gains there and in first-to-vote Iowa.
Meanwhile, Clinton is losing momentum in both states, to the point where a top aide emailed supporters saying that she was nervous about Sanders’ campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire.
The new poll says there is a wide gap in how men and women in Iowa see Clinton and Sanders.
But Clinton has been more forceful on the issue of guns since it has become a way for her to knock Sanders, whose gun record is more conservative than most Democrats. Sanders has 60 percent support in that cohort, with Clinton at 31 percent.
The group said it is aiming to turn out 43,000 MoveOn members in Iowa and 30,000 in New Hampshire to vote, volunteer, organize and fundraise.
Monmouth University polled 413 New Hampshire likely Democratic primary voters from January 7 to January 10 for the survey, which carries an error margin of plus or minus 4.8 percentage points. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), surging in recent primary polls.
Hillary Clinton is turning her stump speech into a near constant attack on Vermont Sen.
Clinton also touted her foreign policy credentials, drawing another, more implicit, contrast with Sanders, who has made tackling economic inequality the focus of his campaign. “I’ve got the scars to show for it and I am proud of every single one of them”, Clinton said. In the caucuses that year, then-senator Barack Obama beat Clinton and former Sen. Biden said it was “relatively new” for Clinton to talk about income inequality, but “no one questions Bernie’s authenticity on those issues”.
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Biden said Sanders is making improvements to his position.
