The CNN town hall comes as the race for the Democratic nomination shows Clinton and Sanders locked in a close battle for Iowa, while Sanders leads Clinton in New Hampshire, and Clinton is seen more favorably by Democrats in SC and in national polls.
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Sanders has always been ahead in New Hampshire, but a CNN/WMUR poll released Tuesday found his support is now almost double hers, with the backing of 60% of the state’s Democrats compared with 33% support for the former secretary of state.
The Des Moines Register Iowa Poll shows Clinton with just a 2-point lead, 42 percent to 40 percent for Sanders, with Martin O’Malley at 4 percent.
Though Sanders continues to poll well among New Hampshire and Iowa voters, who are disproportionately white and more liberal, Clinton retains a key edge among voters in SC and Nevada.
In Tuesday’s poll, Sanders leads Clinton 70 percent to 25 percent among voters that are not registered with a political party.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign spokesperson defended his candidate’s poll numbers – amid a rise from primary opponent Bernie Sanders – and slammed the Vermont senator for having “a lot of slogans, a lot of empty solutions”.
Hillary Clinton is losing big in New Hampshire, a fact that has made it even more critical for her to try and bring home a win in Iowa on February 1. Some 44 percent of people polled think Clinton will have the best chance at beating Trump, whereas only 16 percent favor Sanders. As for the new poll and Hillary’s negative trajectory overall, I generally agree with this: Despite the DNC’s transparent efforts, and their hapless chairwoman’s hilarious lies about it, it appears that the Democratic nominating contest will not be the wire-to-wire coronation Hillary was banking on.
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On the Democratic side, just 52 percent reported they had definitely decided who would receive their vote. Bernie Sanders, her unexpectedly stout opponent. The previous poll, taken in the wake of terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, found that one in four likely Democratic voters said that foreign policy and national security were their primary concern. That poll had him leading Clinton by a 10 percent margin. So he reminds voters of Clinton’s vote in favour of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Moderators posed questions about the economy and Wall Street reform – issues central to Sanders’ campaign – more than any other topic.
