Bernie Sanders on Thursday stood by his pledge to outline his health care plan before the Iowa caucuses amid criticism from Hillary Clinton and conflicting statements from within the Vermont senator’s campaign about whether he will meet his own deadline.
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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.
Bernie Sanders, left, offers an apology to Hillary Clinton during a Democratic presidential primary debate Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015, at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H.
Clinton and her aides have changed their strategy to deal with Sanders and recently begun drawing direct contrasts between her and him on issues important to Democrats, including health care and gun control policy. Hillary Clinton, in early primary states. She said the difference was over how each candidate would approach health care, and that Sanders wants to “basically start all over again” and implement a single-payer system that she believes would cost “about $15 trillion”.
Clinton’s situation in New Hampshire is also worse than in 2008.
Sanders has stuck to running a clean campaign, avoiding attacking Clinton, but this ad may toe the line.
“There are two Democratic visions for regulating Wall Street”.
John Davis, Clinton backer who was former Rep. Bruce Braley’s (D-Iowa) chief of staff, noted that Sanders rise seems to mirror Barack Obama’s surge last time around.
Clinton, meanwhile, has sounded more like the Republican candidates with her conventional forever war posture, her defense of the disastrous Libya intervention and her calls for an escalation of the war in Syria. She sarcastically reminds people that as a former first lady and secretary of state, she wouldn’t need a tour of the White House if elected president. “And I know Bernie, and I can promise you he’s not going to be president of the United States”.
‘I am not nervous at all, ‘ Clinton said Wednesday on the ‘Today Show’.
“I think we will wait and see what Senator Sanders does”, Benenson said.
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So far the Clinton campaign has avoided those kinds of glaring missteps and continues to enjoy a huge lead in SC and a substantial lead nationally.
