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McCaskill: ‘Absolutely impossible’ for Sanders to win key swing states

While Trump and Cruz battle it out to take the Iowa caucus, Sanders has been surging in the Hawkeye state, threatening to derail Clinton’s status as the inevitable nominee. “It is very hard I think for most Americans to see how socialism would cure the problems that we are facing right now”.

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Maine Democrats from across the progressive spectrum on Tuesday announced their decision to back presidential hopeful U.S. Sen.

Although she did not use the term, as she had previously, Clinton went on the offensive in the most recent Democratic debate against Sanders on stage over his apparent inconsistencies, and possible deficiencies in the event that he were elected.

Sanders favorability among Democratic voters also remains “astonishingly high”, the poll found.

Bernie Sanders is topping Hillary Clinton by 27 points in New Hampshire – his biggest lead yet – in a poll out Tuesday. The December poll found him trailing Clinton, 47% to 40%, among that group.

“I think it would be absolutely impossible for a self-declared socialist to win states like Missouri”, McCaskill said Wednesday, echoing comments she made that were printed earlier in The New York Times. Only 26 percent of likely Democratic primary voters remain fully undecided.

“We need more jobs, and we need good jobs”. CNN will also host the March 10 GOP debate in Florida, just days before the first winner-take-all primaries of the 2016 race for the White House.

“We wanted this to be a statement of what a Hillary Clinton would be as a president”, Lee said. In another troubling number for Clinton, some 55% of respondents said she is the “least honest”. In looking at data collected by the InsideGov team, the debate provided a window into how contentious the nomination process has become during the last few weeks within the Democratic Party. The survey center said 52 percent of those polled said they were registered undeclared, or independent voters, while 24 percent were registered Republicans and 23 percent were registered Democrats.

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She’s latched herself to Obama’s legacy and cast Sanders’ policy proposals – particularly a government-run Medicare-for-all plan accompanied by increases in individual income taxes and corporate taxes – as impossible to enact in the current political climate.

US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gives a speech at a rally in Toledo Iowa on Monday. —Reuters