A new NYT/CBS poll this week showed Clinton with her smallest lead nationwide (Clinton 48 percent, Sanders 41). “This is not a negative ad”, he said, “Everybody knows that there are two divisions… there is a division in the Democratic Party”. But a poll released the following day by The Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics shows Clinton with a 2 point lead, down from a 9 point lead in December.
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“As of now, we are at about $1.4 million raised since yesterday when the panic attacks by the Clinton campaign began”, he said.
On Twitter, though, Sanders fired back with a tweet showing his lead over Republican candidates in a hypothetical heads-up battle, using polling from Quinnipiac University last month.
Asked if the Clinton campaign would respond in kind, they said they would “wait and see what Senator Sanders does”.
The debate comes as Senator Sanders is calling into question an ad the Clinton campaign released about guns.
In a CNN clip re-posted Wednesday by the Sanders campaign, a 2008-era Clinton rips into the president-to-be with an indignation not yet seen in Clinton ’16.
Sanders, in the 30-second-long television ad which will air in Iowa and New Hampshire, indirectly contrasts his overhaul plan to Clinton’s, saying “there are two Democratic visions for regulating Wall Street”. And despite the echoes of 2008 now permeating Clinton’s remarks, her campaign has worked aggressively to avoid some of the operational missteps that also marred her first White House bid.
On the standard political story, victories in Iowa and New Hampshire could provide momentum for Sanders and change the dynamics of the race.
Speaking on behalf of the Clinton campaign, senior policy advisor Jake Sullivan and national press secretary Brian Fallon ripped into Sanders for the delay, claiming that it did a disservice to Democratic voters, with the Iowa caucuses just three weeks away. At the outset, Sanders told the overflow crowd that Clinton’s nomination “may not be quite so inevitable” as pundits suggested just a few months ago. It’s fair to say the trade-off won’t be worth it, but you have to mention the tradeoff.
“I think he could guide her a bit” if she needed it, he said. Sanders appears to be sneaking up on Clinton nationally too.
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Campaign manager Dave Hamrick said it was clear that “both Sen”.
