Sanders’ ad hit the airwaves as a new poll sponsored by The Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics showed a tightening race in Iowa, with Clinton at 42 percent and Sanders at 40 percent.
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Clinton: Down 4 points, from 52 percent. And a survey by Monmouth University gave Sanders a double-digit lead in New Hampshire. According to the Monmouth poll, Sanders now leads Clinton 53 percent to 39 percent.
“I am running a different kind of campaign”, Clinton said, asked about the differences between the years. “And that’s what New Hampshire’s about, answering voters’ questions”.
It is fine for Clinton to occasionally praise Obama, but the more she does, the more she runs as the candidate of the status quo compared to Sanders, who runs as the candidate of change. That has resulted in the airing of 1,000 more commercials for Sanders during that time period.
Still, there’s no doubt Sanders’ unexpected strength has the Clinton campaign on edge. The Clinton campaign also held a conference call with reporters to amp up the pressure on how the proposal would raise taxes. I just found out that hes outspending us on TV advertising in Iowa and New Hampshire. Both candidates reported raising more than $30 million in the fourth quarter of 2015.
Sanders is the Rembrandt of progressivism, painting a portrait of a progressive reformation in vivid and dramatic colors, while Clinton paints by the numbers.
She has repeatedly highlighted Sanders vote to protect gun manufacturers from liability, even launching a television ad that tells voters it is time to take a side. The ad seeks to imply that Sanders and Clinton have disparate views on guns, even though both support President Barack Obamas recent executive actions. After largely ignoring Sanders at campaign events, Clinton has more directly critiqued his record at the start of 2016, questioning Sanders’ past votes on gun control and how middle-class taxpayers might be affected by his plan to create a single-payer Medicare for all health care system.
The former president’s trip comes at a critical time for the campaign, and Hillary Clinton and her team are responding to Sanders’ momentum with a series of endorsements and critiques against the Vermont senator.
Having recently snagged the backing of progressive advocacy organizations MoveOn and Democracy for America, Sanders on Thursday gained his first national magazine endorsement, from The Nation.
Sanders, meanwhile, has pulled ahead of Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire with his themes of income inequality and the excesses of the “billionaire class”.
Don’t talk to me about standing up to corporate interests and big powers.
Her comments mirrored one of her most searing criticisms of Obama from eight years ago, when she suggested his plan for fulfilling lofty campaign promises amounted to hoping “the skies will open, the light will come down, celestial choirs will be singing and everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be flawless”.
Their daughter Chelsea came out swinging against Sanders when stumping for her mother Tuesday, saying he “wants to dismantle Obamacare”, a move she said could “strip millions and millions and millions of people of their health insurance”.
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There is also a growing whiff of worry in the air surrounding the Clinton campaign as Hillary Clinton and her entourage of consultants and advisers feel the burn of a nomination victory they once believed was inevitable that may possibly be slipping away.
