Bernie Sanders outperforms Hillary Clinton in head-to-head match-ups with top Republican presidential candidates in New Hampshire, a CNN/WMUR poll shows.
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Forty-four percent of voters say Hillary Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, would be either a poor or bad president, with 28 percent saying she would be awful.
Sanders, meanwhile, has opened up an eight-point lead over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, leading her in Iowa 51 percent to 43 percent among likely Democratic presidential caucus-goers.
On the other hand, Sanders trails Clinton by 4 points in Iowa, but has been flirting with overtaking Clinton in the state for a while.
With less than two weeks before the February 1 Iowa caucuses, the former secretary of state questioned the Vermont senator’s ability to deliver on the promises he makes to liberal voters.
“He has suggested that we invite Iranian troops into Syria”, Clinton said.
“This campaign is not about me”. The switch is dramatic in Iowa, which holds the first-in-the-nation primary, the Iowa caucuses, in just eleven days.
Despite some new polls showing Bernie Sanders ahead in New Hampshire by as much as 27 points, there is an air of realism at his first campaign stop since the latest surge captured headlines here.
Clinton started the 2016 campaign as the prohibitive favorite to win the Democrat’s nomination, someone whose ability to organize, fundraise and turnout voters all but guaranteed her the nomination.
Clinton said Sanders would reopen the overall debate about health care, giving Republicans an opening to repeal what’s already in place. The former senator also hit Republicans, as she does regularly, and showed a more contemplative side, something she displayed Wednesday in Burlington, Iowa. But that’s not what you’ll get.
But spurred by anti-establishment anger and an ability to raise big money online, Sanders has risen in the polls and become someone who credibly could beat Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire, something that would have been considered outrageous months ago.
The Monmouth measurement of Sanders’s support among young people resembles the results of a recent USA TODAY/Rock the Vote survey that found he leads Clinton 46%-35%, among millennial Democrats and independents.
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“Secretary Clinton supports diplomacy with Iran”. “These are complex and challenging times, and we need a Commander in Chief who knows how to protect America and our allies and advance our interests and values around the world”. The music swells and Simon and Garfunkel’s voices intone that, “They’ve all come to look for America”, as thousands of pictures flash on the screen: individuals who have all made small campaign contributions for Sanders.
