U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump continues to grab all the media attention, and Hillary Clinton remains a Wall Street favorite-so why is underdog Democratic Party candidate Bernie Sanders suddenly surging again in the polls?
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Last month, a Bloomberg/Des Moines Register poll found Clinton was ahead of Sanders by 9 points, 48% to 39%. In the 2008 primary, he endorsed Barack Obama.
Clinton and Sanders are neck and neck in Iowa, but Sanders is opening up a big lead in New Hampshire according to the most recent Monmouth Poll.
Fallon said the Republican candidates “might say something bad about” Clinton during the debate, suggesting she should “have a drinking game where every time they say your name you do a shot”. In this category, Sanders is leading Clinton by a substantial 10 percentage points (51-41 percent). 4. “The idea of expanding instant background checks, the idea of making sure that people who have criminal backgrounds or are mentally unstable should not have guns – something I have believed my whole life”, Sanders said.
The editors noted that Clinton would shatter the glass ceiling and champion women’s rights in a way that no other president has if she were elected but argued the limits of her potential presidency are clear.
“She’s at her best when she’s fighting for it”, said Maria Cardona, a Clinton supporter who worked for the 2008 campaign.
“There has not been a negative ad directed at Bernie Sanders yet”, Vilsack said.
Thursday, Clinton’s camp accused Sanders of directly attacking the former Secretary of State in his latest ad which takes a not-so-subtle jab at Clinton accepting donations from Wall Street.
On Monday, Sanders dug up a two-year-old tweet from John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chair, that backed a single-payer healthcare system.
Although they objected to the lack of detail, the Clinton campaign staffers evidently had enough details to launch a harsh critique of Sanders’ concept of universal health care.
Clinton denied feeling nervous about the direction of her campaign on the NBC morning show Today, instead saying she was “excited about where we are”.
In December, the Sanders campaign also pulled a negative ad after it received attention for going against his “no attack ad” promise.
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As polls in the Democratic contest have tightened, the Clinton campaign has criticized Sanders both for middle-class tax increases included in his 2013 bill and for not sharing his updated plan sooner.
