According to CNN, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is convinced that Hillary Clinton has turned her attacks on him, regarding the issues of taxes and guns, among others, because she is threatened by his success.
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Sioux City With less than two weeks until voting begins, the 74-year-old self-described democratic socialist Bernie Sanders could win both Iowa and New Hampshire, a once unthinkable outcome in a primary campaign that was supposed to be tailor-made for Hillary Clinton.
“There’s an argument, ‘Well, you know, the reason we have to vote for Secretary Clinton is she is the only candidate who can beat right-wing Republicans, ‘” Sanders said.
The urgency was clear in Clinton’s voice, as she implored Iowa voters Monday night to follow their heads – not their hearts – and to remember how hard the presidency is.
“In 2008, Barack Obama ran one of the great campaigns in the history of this country-he rewrote the caucus rulebook right here in Iowa-unbelievable”, Sanders said.
Sanders also pushed back against doubts about his general election viability. “The last two major polls in the Palmetto State, both released in December, showed Clinton leading Sanders by 36 percentage points in one and 44 points in the other”.
While some of Clinton’s aides are sensing the urgency in the final 12 days, the former secretary of state responded by thanking the voters of Iowa. The campaign pointed to recent supportive comments about Sanders from Republican Party leaders as an indication that the GOP believes he would be easier to defeat in November than Clinton. That number has grown since then. For example, Clinton led 65 percent to 27 percent among women; 71 percent to 27 percent among 50-plus voters; 77 percent to 19 percent among voters who want “experience;” 54 percent to 43 percent among “liberals;” 64 percent-24 percent among moderates/conservatives; and plus-15 percent among white voters and, notably, 69 percent among “nonwhite primary voters”. The Clinton campaign’s official line: Move along, folks, nothing to see here-just some natural tightening as the caucuses and votes draw nigh.
“By the way, without naming any names, Goldman Sachs also provides very, very generous speaking fees to some unnamed candidates”, Sanders said, as the crowd chuckled.
Asked what has changed between 2008 and today, Dawn simply responded, “Bernie”. Now Hillary Clinton feeling the burn. Maybe now, however, she realizes that Hillary isn’t the inevitable candidate that the media and the Democratic establishment thought she was. “People who feel left out and left behind – they should be mad, and they should feel left out and left behind”, Clinton said. “This campaign very quickly decided that’s the route we don’t want to go”. Rubio is embracing a patient approach that goes well beyond the states with February contests: Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.
At stop after stop on Tuesday, he reminded voters that he can win.
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That was a precursor to what would soon become the “Sanders Sensation”, a spontaneous, unusually vibrant grassroots uprising that has already shattered the Democratic Establishment’s holy myth that corporate centrism and super PAC money are the only means to victory. “And to get a large voter turnout, there has to be excitement – enthusiasm at the grassroots level. I think that’s a pretty good track record”.
